[libvirt] [PATCH] Update to COPYING.LIB to latest LGPLv2.1 copy

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 7 16:48:25 UTC 2013


On 03/11/2013 05:43 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> The text version
> of LGPLv2.1 available at
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt is slightly
> different from COPYING.LIB:
> - several paragraphs were rewrapped
> - the FSF address has changed, so the license has been changed to
>   indicate the newer address
> 
> I've checked that there are no changes in the license text apart from
> the updated address, which is what I want to fix with this commit.
> ---
>  COPYING.LIB | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Hmm.  I just noticed that our COPYING file is the older copy of
COPYING.LIB (LGPL); but LGPL requires that we distribute a copy of the
GPL (since the LGPL refers by reference to terms from the GPL).  Looks
like we still have some more work to do in this area.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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