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libiberty legal status ?
- To: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: libiberty legal status ?
- From: Marc Espie <Marc dot Espie at liafa dot jussieu dot fr>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:28:13 +0200
While browsing thru libiberty code, I noticed a rather disturbing problem.
Some of the files there have been bodily lifted from other GNU tools,
verbatim.
This means that they retain a full GPL copyright notice, whereas
libiberty license is supposed to be LGPL.
So, suddenly, the legal status of libiberty is completely unclear.
I presume the logical course would be to change the copyright notice
of these files, which only the FSF can do, if I read things right...
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