Hello,

I was browsing GeoTools and I see conflicting evidence about the exact license:

1. https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/main/LICENSE.md lists LGPL v2.1
2. The GitHub README has the http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
which goes to LGPL v3
3. The website https://geotools.org/about.html correctly links to
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
4. The pom.xml (https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/main/pom.xml#L35
), which is part of the binary JARs, mentions
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.txt which again serves LGPL v3.

Basically, you need to make sure that all link to gnu.org point
towards the specific version otherwise GNU will replace the version in
time and always serve the latest LGPL version...

A PR for Maven, etc. should be easy, just use
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt

--emi


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