[zeromq-dev] COPYING should be pulled from the source tarball
Martin Sustrik
sustrik at fastmq.com
Wed Dec 10 09:34:45 CET 2008
Hi Peter,
This is a legal issue. LGPL license is designed as an appendix to GPL
license granting some additional rights. Thus, to make it legally valid
you need both GPL & LGPL licenses in the package.
Have a look at gnu.org for details.
Martin
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
> Since 0MQ relicensed under LGPLv3+, it seems that existence of file
> with text of GPLv3 license in the source tarball (among the actual
> LGPLv3 license) may be a bit confusing to enduser (for me, as an
> example). I think that removing it from the sources is a generally
> good idea.
>
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