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Re: ITP: libevent-rpc-perl -- Event based transparent Client/Server RPC framework



On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:07:13PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > There are some issues with debian/copyright: it's missing the download URL
> > and pointing to GPL instead of LGPL.

> Regarding the licence I'm not quite sure: The author uses the GNU
> _Library_ General Public License 2.1 or later but
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ states "has been superseded by the
> Lesser GPL." and http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html says "It
> also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License,
> version 2, hence the version number 2.1."
> 
> If I interpret this correctly than referring to the _Lesser_ GPL
> would be ok (as the successor, by the "or later" clause, and because
> there is not even a version 2.1 of the _Library_ GPL). Is this
> correct?
> 
> I've now changed the reference in debian/copyright to point to the
> LGPL.

Any comments on that one?

If my conclusions are correct I guess this package would be ready for
upload, too.
  

Cheers,
gregor

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