From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@opensvc.com>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:54:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522266841.5251.50.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <597ef512-842d-633f-b6f9-d2156b4aa931@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 21:40 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 03/28/2018 12:03 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:
>
> >
> > IMO you should only call it "COPYING.LESSER" if it's really the
> > lesser
> > GPL (aka LGPLv2.1).
>
> LESSER is just the family of the licence, a tag.
I disagree. The name Lesser GPL was invented after the creation of the
LGPLv2. It's misleading to name the file so, even if the differences
between LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 are small.
> COPYING.LIBRARY is really a very bad name.
Why? I think it expresses quite nicely what it contains.
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-28 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-27 18:28 [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-03-27 18:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] multipath-tools: add GPLv2 as COPYING Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-03-27 22:04 ` Martin Wilck
2018-03-28 19:31 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-03-27 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER Martin Wilck
2018-03-28 19:40 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-03-28 19:54 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2018-03-28 20:05 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-03-28 20:14 ` Martin Wilck
2018-04-09 15:57 ` Martin Wilck
2018-04-09 17:29 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-04-09 19:08 ` Martin Wilck
2018-04-09 20:38 ` Christophe Varoqui
2018-04-09 21:25 ` Martin Wilck
2018-04-09 22:37 ` multipath-tools 0.7.6 fossology license assessment Martin Wilck
2018-04-10 14:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-04-10 15:45 ` Christophe Varoqui
2018-04-10 21:38 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
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