2017-03-06 4:47 GMT-03:00 Christian Beer <christian.b...@aei.mpg.de>: > Hi David, > > on Aug 6 2008 you changed the file COPYING in BOINC > (https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/9baf78fe5f5deb3c4f642842a1ef29cfc0cb2348). > This file now contains the text of the GPL while COPYING.LESSER contains > the text of the LGPL. This makes it ambiguous under what license BOINC > is. Could you please clarify why COPYING contains the GPL instead of > LGPL and maybe correct that?
This is because the LGPLv3 is written as supplemental clauses on top of GPLv3. The text of the LGPLv3 alone is not a complete license. "This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below." And from the howto https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html: "If you are releasing your program under the LGPL, you should also include the text version of the LGPL, usually in a file called COPYING.LESSER. Please note that, since the LGPL is a set of additional permissions on top of the GPL, it's important to include both licenses so users have all the materials they need to understand their rights." -- Nicolás _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
