Re: [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER

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On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 21:40 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 03/28/2018 12:03 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> 
> > 
> > IMO you should only call it "COPYING.LESSER" if it's really the
> > lesser
> > GPL (aka LGPLv2.1).
> 
> LESSER is just the family of the licence, a tag.

I disagree. The name Lesser GPL was invented after the creation of the
LGPLv2. It's misleading to name the file so, even if the differences
between LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 are small.

> COPYING.LIBRARY is really a very bad name. 

Why? I think it expresses quite nicely what it contains.

Martin


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