On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 02:52:58PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
Our README file claims that license info is in LICENSE, but we did not have a file by that name in the tarball. At least we did correctly ship COPYING.LIB since the library is LGPLv2+. ---
The LGPL requires that the user also receive a copy of the GPL, since anyone can upgrade their copy from LGPL to GPL. Does that mean we should ship a copy of COPYING alongside COPYING.LIB?
README | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README b/README index c591f4a..d6d1704 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ LICENSE
The software is copyright © Red Hat Inc. and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or above (LGPLv2+). See -‘LICENSE’ for details. +the file ‘COPYING.LIB’ for details. The examples are under a very +liberal license.
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