From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Romain Naour Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:45:22 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cairo: improve license information In-Reply-To: References: <20170306210218.28867-1-romain.naour@gmail.com> <20170307211711.348d28cb@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <79aa8a65-8330-cb9d-65b0-072dbb30a53d@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Rahul, Thomas, Le 08/03/2017 ? 07:55, Rahul Bedarkar a ?crit : > 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