[Pkg-e-devel] Comments regarding elementary_1.8.4-1_amd64.changes

[Albin Tonnerre]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Thorsten Alteholz
<ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,

Hi Thorsten,

> according to elementary-1.8.4/src/lib/Elementary.h the license of elementary
> is LGPLv2. The file also points to COPYING.
> According to COPYING the license is LGPLv2.1.
> According to your debian/copyright the license is LGPLv2.1+
>
> Can you please shed some light on this?

It appears Elementary is licensed under LGPL-2.1 and the references to
LGPL-2 in Elementary.h are stale and need updating; debian/copyright
should also be updated, I'm not sure where that 2.1+ came from.

Thanks,
-- 
Albin