Re: [PATCH 1/5] Fixing Lesser GPL version number [1/5]

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 08:07:52AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:

> > There is no "version 2" of the "Lesser" General Public License. It is
> > either "GPL version 2.0" or "Lesser GPL version 2.1". This patch replaces all
> > occurrences of "Lesser GPL version 2" with "Lesser GPL version 2.1" in comment section.
> 
> I'm not a copyright lawyer; there may be legal ramifications for doing
> this on files where you are not the copyright owner, although to me it
> looks like an obvious correction of intent, so I'm okay with the idea.

Yes, we've done exactly this same cleanup for various files before,
and considered it acceptable since it is matching the intent.


> Thus, maybe something like:
> 
> backends: Fix LGPL version number
> disas: Fix LGPL version number
> target: Fix LGPL version number
> 
> and so on.  There may be a smarter division of the work based on which
> maintainer(s) will have to ack various patches; breaking the series into
> more than 5 chunks may be easier, although it then requires more topic
> lines.  Or, if it truly is automated, doing it all in one shot may be
> best after all.

I'm happy to queue 80% of this patch, and a patch of patch 2, since
they cover files in subsystems I maintain and the typos are largely
my fault :-)



Regards,
Daniel
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