[Lame-dev] [PATCH] lame --license output change

Rogério Brito rbrito at ime.usp.br
Fri May 6 21:50:59 UTC 2011


Humm, apparently, something in the way ate your patch and I didn't receive
it.

On May 06 2011, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > On 11-05-06 at 04:31pm, Andres Mejia wrote:
> >> +            "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n"
> >> +            "modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public\n"
> >> +            "License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either\n"
> >> +            "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n"
> >>              "\n"
> >
> > There is no such thing as version 2 of the "GNU Lesser General Public
> > License".

Right.

> > There is either "GNU Library General Public License" version 2.0 or "GNU
> > Lesser General Public License" version 2.1.
> >
> > The former is considered obsolete by the Free Software Foundation, and
> > the latter is by the Free Software Foundation interpreted as a successor
> > to the older _Library_ license even if differently named.

Right again. Aside from naming/version, is there any change in content from
LGPL2.0 and LGPL2.1?

Too busy to check right now...

> The copyright headers for the sources in LAME still say LGPL2.0. The patch
> simply reflects this.

Indeed.


Regards,

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