I changed COPYING back to the GPL license.
-- David
On 3/6/2017 8:02 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
2017-03-06 4:47 GMT-03:00 Christian Beer <[email protected]>:
Hi David,
on Aug 6 2008 you changed the file COPYING in BOINC
(https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/9baf78fe5f5deb3c4f642842a1ef29cfc0cb2348).
This file now contains the text of the GPL while COPYING.LESSER contains
the text of the LGPL. This makes it ambiguous under what license BOINC
is. Could you please clarify why COPYING contains the GPL instead of
LGPL and maybe correct that?
This is because the LGPLv3 is written as supplemental clauses on top
of GPLv3. The text of the LGPLv3 alone is not a complete license.
"This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates
the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public
License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below."
And from the howto https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html:
"If you are releasing your program under the LGPL, you should also
include the text version of the LGPL, usually in a file called
COPYING.LESSER. Please note that, since the LGPL is a set of
additional permissions on top of the GPL, it's important to include
both licenses so users have all the materials they need to understand
their rights."
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