[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cairo: improve license information

Rahul Bedarkar Rahul.Bedarkar at imgtec.com
Wed Mar 8 06:55:39 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Wednesday 08 March 2017 01:47 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:54:24 +0530, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
>
>> License string for LGPL should be "LGPLv2.1" because license text
>> doesn't have "or (at your option) any later version;" clause.
>
> The license file itself never says "or (at your option) any later
> version". The license text of the GPL or LGPL is always the text of one
> specific version of the license. To know whether "or later" applies or
> not, you usually need to look at the comments in the code.

Yes, I was referring to license text from source file header. But I 
agree that my comment didn't make it clear.

Thanks,
Rahul



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