| Subject: | Very minor ambiguity in licensing |
Scraping through the files, most files indicate "LGPL, See LICENSE file",
And LICENSE indicates "LGPL-2.1 only" ( no statements about an "or later" version )
The only place the "or later" aspect is found is in README.
It would be nice if the cite texts were more explicit about intention in this regard, beyond the one instance in README.
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm:2:# Copyright (c) 2011 by the cairo perl team (see the file README)
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm-3-#
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm:4:# Licensed under the LGPL, see LICENSE file for more information.
This might be better worded:
"Licensed under LGPL-2.1, or at your choice, any later version: See LICENSE for more information"
There's only about 2 places this would need to be fixed.
Additionally, its customary to retain some license info in POD , so that statements like this in isolation don't give the perception that the code is non-free:
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm:56:=head1 COPYRIGHT
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm-57-
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm:58:Copyright (C) 2011 by the cairo perl team
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm-59-
./lib/Cairo/GObject.pm-60-=cut
Cairo also has the same pattern of minor ambiguity, but I won't file an additional bug for that seeing you maintain both :)
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