License wrongly abbreviated as LGPL (should be GPL)

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License wrongly abbreviated as LGPL (should be GPL)

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 4 comments

License is declared in many places to be under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (LGPLv3) - i.e. GPL but with LGPL in parenthesis.

Answer 1 · 2019-10-07T08:48:58.000Z

Many thanks for pointing out the license issues. Now all file heades should correctly refer to version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3).

Answer 2 · 2019-10-08T18:20:05.000Z

When all is licensed LGPL-3, you might wanna drop needless file GPL.txt.

Answer 3 · 2019-10-08T18:29:18.000Z

As far as I know, both files are required (i.e., LGPL-3.0.txt and GPL.txt) since the LGPL-3.0.txt file refers to the terms and conditions of the GPLv3 (in contrast to the LGPL2 license file):

This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below.

Answer 4 · 2019-10-08T21:26:21.000Z

Quoting andreas-steigmiller (2019-10-08 20:29:18)

As far as I know, both files are required (i.e., `LGPL-3.0.txt` and `GPL.txt`) since the `LGPL-3.0.txt` file refers to the terms and conditions of the GPLv3 (in contrast to the LGPL2 license file): > This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below.

Ah. I learned something new today :-) - Jonas

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