Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:51:21 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> writes:

>> Seqoia PGP is LGPLv2+ after requests, I believe from RedHat and maybe
>> others, but I don't know the full story.  It first used GPLv3+ and then
>> GPLv2+ and then LGPLv2+:
>> 
>> https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
>> 
>> https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/commits/main/LICENSE.txt
>
> ...so all strong-copyleft licenses, from the start.

The LGPL is a weak copyleft license:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Strong_and_weak_copyleft

  'Free-software licenses that use "weak" copyleft include the GNU
   Lesser General Public License and the Mozilla Public License.'

/Simon

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