Follow-up Comment #40, sr #111226 (group administration):
>> ... the Git records suggest that the file was initially written by a
>> different person. How did you take that into account when you added the
>> license notice?
>
> I only followed your guidelines to rectify the problem in licensing the
> project, otherwise the project has issues that can't be solved, for example
> man pages are licensed under LGPL which is odd for a man page.
I must have omitted something essential. I didn't intend to say that you
should add invalid license notices. On the other hand, you said you had read
the GPL FAQ and the GPL HowTo, and they explain that only copyright holders
may authorize changing licensing terms for any parts of their copyrighted
works. I also thought it's evident that, for example, replacing the LGPL with
a permissive license means changing the licensing terms, and that adding
invalid notices in files missing them isn't helpful---on the opposite, it will
confuse the users, and worse. If anything is unclear about these basics, we
should clarify that.
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