On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:19:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Regarding the licence I'm not quite sure: The author uses the GNU > >> _Library_ General Public License 2.1 or later but > >> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ states "has been superseded by the Lesser > >> GPL." and http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html says "It also counts > >> as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence > >> the version number 2.1." > >> > >> If I interpret this correctly than referring to the _Lesser_ GPL would > >> be ok (as the successor, by the "or later" clause, and because there is > >> not even a version 2.1 of the _Library_ GPL). Is this correct? > Yeah, it sounds reasonable to me; Thanks for checking and confirming. > it sounds like it was just a wording > mistake by upstream. I'd probably send them a note and ask them to > clarify in a future release. I've just sent an email to the upstream author asking for clarification. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : infos zur usenet-hierarchie at.*: http://www.usenet.at/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Pat Metheny, B.B. King, Dave B: B.B. King & his orchestra / P
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