[PATCH] lame --license output change

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Fri May 6 20:55:21 UTC 2011


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".
>
> 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.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
>
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The copyright headers for the sources in LAME still say LGPL2.0. The
patch simply reflects this.

-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia



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