Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:31:05 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license |
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse > <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General Public" > > That's just FSF revisionism. > > It used to be called "Library" over "Lesser", in the original GPL2. > > I suspect your other issues are similar "there's been different > versions over time" things. the address being one of them. > > We've actually taken some of the FSF updates over the years ("19yy" -> > "<year>", and the address change) but the main COPYING file still > calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License". > > I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic > internal FSF politics that tried to change history.
Do we have any files which had the later LGPL text attached to them - if so then they should be keeping that header.
Which raises another question. If there are multiple GPL 2.0 texts which are *supposedly* legally identical but this has never been tested in law -that implies SPDX is wrong in tagging them identically in case they turn out not to be...
Alan
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