On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 08:36:44AM GMT, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 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).
>
Sure, I did:
[...]
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
[...]
Here, however, the focus was on which version - 2 or 3 - the original
source code was released under, *not* which license one is allowed
to choose for redistribution and/or modification.
Yes, I'm familiar with the v2-only (i.e. git) vs. vX+ nomenclature.
Cheers,
Raf
