Re: License correction

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:29:46 -0400
>> 
>> Would someone please change the licenses on these files to the GPL?
>> I'd rather avoid the need to include the LGPL with Emacs.
>
> I believe md5 and strftime were lifted from glibc, whose license is
> LGPL.  I don't know if that matters, but I thought I'd mention that
> in case it would.

Well, it is a case of (citing from the LGPL 2.1):

      3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
    License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library.  To do
    this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so
    that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2,
    instead of to this License.  (If a newer version than version 2 of the
    ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify
    that version instead if you wish.)  Do not make any other change in
    these notices.
    ^L
      Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for
    that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to all
    subsequent copies and derivative works made from that copy.

      This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code of
    the Library into a program that is not a library.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum