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

Romain Naour romain.naour at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 22:45:22 UTC 2017


Hi Rahul, Thomas,

Le 08/03/2017 à 07:55, Rahul Bedarkar a écrit :
> 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 for the review!
I'll fix

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Thanks,
> Rahul




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