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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The README and COPYING files need to be updated.

/Anders

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:33:12PM +0200, Johan Jansson wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:44:53PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> > One thing to discuss is which version of LGPL to use. There are
> > several options:
> >
> >   1. Version 2.1
> >   2. Version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version published by FSF
> >   3. Version 3 (soon to be published)
> >
> > Before making the switch from GPL --> LGPL, it would be good to decide
> > on 1, 2 or 3 so we don't need to make another license change soon.
> >
> > /Anders
> 
> The email we sent out to the authors only concerned version 2.1 though,
> i.e. we sent a link to:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
> 
> If we would have wanted to ask about allowing any future licenses, we
> should have indicated that in the email, but we didn't do that. So if we
> want to ask permission for that, we need to send out another mail.
> 
> My intent is not at all to rush this (after all, we have waited several
> months). But perhaps we can be satisfied for now that we have managed to
> carry out at least this change? I think it would be much more
> controversial to ask people to agree to distribute under a license which
> doesn't exist yet (Version 3 and future licenses), so I think the best
> plan would have been to do it step-by-step anyway.
> 
> We can have a discussion about this now though if people are interested,
> since it's become relevant. Would it make sense to have an open-ended
> license, i.e.:
> 
> # Copyright (C) 2007 Foo Bar
> # Licensed under either the GNU LGPL Version 2.1
> # or (at your option) any later version published
> # by the Free Software Foundation.
> 
> As I said, I'm highly skeptical of what would constitute giving the Free
> Software Foundation a legal carte blanche with my license. Sure, they seem
> like reasonable people now, but who knows what they will decide in 10
> years time? So I would probably say no to that. Or does this sound
> reasonable to you?
> 
>   Johan
> 
> 
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