On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:10:55AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM Marián Konček <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A change that went unnoticed for some time. > > > > The upstream project contains a plain LICENSE file which is identical to > > the definition of `LGPL-2.1-only` but their source files include licence > > headers explicitly stating: `SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later`. > > > > Therefore I conclude the effective license is `LGPL-2.1-or-later`. > > As far as I know, the license texts for LGPL-2.1-only and > LGPL-2.1-or-later are actually the same (well, it *is* the LGPL v2.1 > text in both cases) - whether it's "-only" or "-or-later" needs to be > determined from other context.
The "or later" is canonically conveyed by "Standard License Header". For MariaDB, the file I've randomly selected has later version clause: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/main/client/async_example.c#L7 -- Tomasz .. oo o. oo o. .o .o o. o. oo o. .. Torcz .. .o .o .o .o oo oo .o .. .. oo oo o.o.o. .o .. o. o. o. o. o. o. oo .. .. o. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
