[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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>
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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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