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Re: libidn2 license


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: libidn2 license
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:21:54 +0100
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>  The license included in libidn2 COPYING is the GPLv3 license, whereas
> the library seems to be dual LGPLv3+GPLv2 licensed according to:
> https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/commit/17c93028c86ed12599a5a18995ccd25892f5e68e
>
> That most likely would prompt distributors to mark the library as
> gplv3 (in fact fedora marks it as such), even though it is not.
>
> I think it would be more clear if the COPYING of LGPLv3 and GPLv2 were
> also included as with libidn library.

Hi.  Good point, done in:

https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/commit/cb5a252a0cf5151df5421aa3d74be2bbf33232c9?expand_all_diffs=1

/Simon

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