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Bug 24716 - Social contract has LGPL name wrong
Summary: Social contract has LGPL name wrong
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-07-18 01:18 UTC by Dan Armak (RETIRED)
Modified: 2003-07-19 02:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-18 01:18:32 UTC
Forwarding from Karl-Heinz Zimmer who mailed this to me. I've sent him a note to submit here the 
next time. 
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I just found something on http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml that probably is a typo: 
   
    "However, Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of software 
      unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, 
      GNU "Lesser" Public License or some other license approved 
      by the Open Source Initiative (OSI.)" 
  
The license is called "GNU Lesser General Public License"  (at least so it is called /today/ while 
originally it was called "GNU Library General Public License" until good Stallman changed his mind).
see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL 
 
So the word "General" is missing here: the trick is that this license is called lesser general - but not 
lesser public.  <g> 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-18 01:20:46 UTC
His address is khz@kde.org - I sent him a note to make himself an account so he can be cc'd 
on this. 
Yeah, I know I went the long way around this... 
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-19 02:47:34 UTC
I'll change this
Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-19 02:50:25 UTC
Committed.