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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-07-13 00:49:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-07-13 00:49:07 +0000 |
| commit | 2c54b27bf34dccedede4f8becdd71602c603552d (patch) | |
| tree | c2e2d25e4bf5854d27e1b2ddcad6028c76fda035 /doc/gnulib-intro.texi | |
| parent | 79eeb85c64e179f08338ff76ee6c836eea4043b4 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-2c54b27bf34dccedede4f8becdd71602c603552d.tar.gz | |
Clarify the license abbreviations in the modules files.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gnulib-intro.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi index efac23d4ed..00f5003781 100644 --- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi +++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi @@ -212,7 +212,9 @@ proofreading the patch. Most modules are under the GPL. Some, mostly modules which can reasonably be used in libraries, are under LGPL. The source files always say "GPL", but the real license specification is in the module -description file. +description file. If the module description file says "GPL", it currently +means "GPLv2+" (GPLv2 or newer, at the licensee's choice); if it says "LGPL", +it currently means "LGPLv2+" (LGPLv2 or newer, at the licensee's choice). More precisely, the license specification in the module description file applies to the files in @file{lib/} and @file{build-aux/}. Different |