On 2019/11/08 07:30, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Which brings us to the final - simply download the tarball[2], untar > it, and run: > > $ head -n 2 COPYING > GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > Version 2, June 1991
Please check the source code files or other files in the distribution, COPYING is usually just a copy of the GPL/LGPL text itself, it is the other files which contain the copyright notice and importantly which versions of the license are used ("v2", "v3", "v2 or newer" etc).