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changeset 9089:88ca1c53f8c3
Clarify the license abbreviations in the modules files.
| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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| date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:49:07 +0000 |
| parents | f5d60677ace5 |
| children | b1835d4a5e2a |
| files | ChangeLog doc/gnulib-intro.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-07-12 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Copyright): Clarify the license abbreviations + in the modules files. + 2007-07-11 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> * MODULES.html.sh (func_module): use
--- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi +++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi @@ -212,7 +212,9 @@ Most modules are under the GPL. Some, mostly modules which can reasonably be used in libraries, are under LGPL. The source files always say "GPL", but the real license specification is in the module -description file. +description file. If the module description file says "GPL", it currently +means "GPLv2+" (GPLv2 or newer, at the licensee's choice); if it says "LGPL", +it currently means "LGPLv2+" (LGPLv2 or newer, at the licensee's choice). More precisely, the license specification in the module description file applies to the files in @file{lib/} and @file{build-aux/}. Different