I see that the Licensing page [1] treats LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 as the same, with a short name of "LGPLv2". Also, rpmlint complains about LGPLv2.1 in spec files. Why is this?
I'm packaging a program [2] that uses 2.1 in the README/COPYING and 2 in the source code headers. I've received clarification on the license from the author as LGPLv2.1+, but now I wonder if it makes any difference since the spec tag would be the same in either case.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465897
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 13:00 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
I see that the Licensing page [1] treats LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 as the same, with a short name of "LGPLv2". Also, rpmlint complains about LGPLv2.1 in spec files. Why is this?
Because v2 and v2.1 are the same thing.
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