Rev'ing LGPL licenses to 2.1

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

A couple weeks back Jeff said that we should sync up with the current
version of the LGPL at the FSF.[*] The LGPL exists in five places from
the top level down:

    COPYING.LIB
    gcc/COPYING.LIB
    libf2c/libU77/COPYING.LIB
    libiberty/COPYING.LIB
    libjava/libltdl/COPYING.LIB

The last one is already v2.1, so I won't touch it.  (It does have some
linewrapping reformatting, however, so don't freak out when the filesize
on that one doesn't match.)

The other four are all v2.0 (I checked), and I will shortly apply patches
to bring them to 2.1.  The diff between <any given 2.0> and 2.1 is appended
in case you're curious.  The ChangeLog entries will all look the same,
too (duh).

Phil
[*]  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-01/msg01162.html



2001-01-29  Phil Edwards  <pme@sources.redhat.com>

	* COPYING.LIB:  Update to LGPL 2.1 from the FSF.



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