Re: How to deal with typo "2" instead of "2.1" for "GNU Lesser General Public" in headers?

On 4 January 2015 at 19:18, Boudewijn Rempt <boud-4ZnIdb/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>
>> can it be assumed (and should we) that all contributors actually agreed to
>> the
>> "2.1" version of the "Lesser" given there is no "2" version?
>
>
> Yes.

Oh, good find.

Yes, except for new libraries, the intent is that any new file
inherits license of other files, and from the library. So any usage
non-existing license leads to this conclusion - it was a mistake.

>> Especially as at least all files I checked also contain "or (at your
>> option)
>> any later version.", where "2.1" would be a theoretical later version of
>> "2"?
>>
>> To be on the really safe side I guess one would need to get all
>> contributors
>> explicitely agree to the correct version. But pragmatically I would just
>> assume people very much were in agreement with 2.1, and this can be
>> considered
>> just a typo.
>>
>> So would anyone strongly advise against simply applying a patch to all
>> those
>> license headers and change the "2" to "2.1"?
>>
>
> Not me.

Not me. Is it hard to find all emails we need?

>
> Boud
>
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