* On 02/26/2018 10:28 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: > The LGPL-2.1 starts with > > | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > | of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I am therefore wondering whether the IUPAC/... license text violates > itself the LGPL license conditions and cannot be distributed in Debian > at all? IANAL: they have not changed LGPL-2.1, but copied it and released it under a different name. As far as I understand, it would only be violating LGPL-2.1, if the text was changed, but the original name retained (since in such a case, naturally, you'd be getting something that isn't LGPL-2.1 under the LGPL-2.1 name). By changing the name as well, they made clear that this is not LGPL-2.1, so I do not see any violation. Mihai
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