| > | > However, be very careful with this. There are two distinctly worded | > versions of this license in use, one with the L being Library, and the | > other Lesser, and they have a different version number. In other words, | > it's not, unfortunately, going to be a complete search and replace, each | > one will have to be checked (well, unless you already know that they're all | > using the version that says Lesser.) | > | | You're right - what KOffice seems to be using is the Library GPL, and to | emphasise the point they are calling it 'LGPL V2'. | | The Lesser' license is >= V2.1 according to my reading of | http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html | "The GNU Lesser General Public License, or GNU LGPL for short. | This is a free software license, but not a strong copyleft license, because it | permits linking with non-free modules. It is compatible with the GNU GPL. We | recommend it for special circumstances only. | Between version 2 and 2.1, the GNU LGPL was renamed from the GNU Library | General Public License to the GNU Lesser General Public License to better | reflect its actual purpose. Namely, it is not just for libraries, and the GNU | GPL is sometimes more appropriate for libraries. " | | Maybe we need 2 entities, 'underLGPLV2' and 'underLesserGPL' ?
I'd prefer only to add the Lesser GPL. The Library GPL is obsolete according to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html, but of course I/we cannot stop authors from choosing any license they want to use. If required, I'll add the Library GPL as well. Frederik
