[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/dovecot: New package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 3 11:40:24 UTC 2014


Dear Bernd Kuhls,

On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:33:15 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:

> how to do that?
> Are the websites where I can upload license files for checking?
> 
> I compared http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt and 
> http://www.dovecot.org/doc/COPYING.LGPL, they are 100% identical.
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/doc/COPYING says:
> "Everything else is LGPLv2.1 (see COPYING.LGPL) unless otherwise mentioned
> at the beginning of the file."

Regarding LGPLv2.1 vs. LGPLv2.1+ it's not written in the license text
(the license text is just one particular version), but in the header of
each source file, where you have a "(or later)" specification if it's
with "+", or no such specification when it's just one particular
version that applies.

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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