Re: 2.1b license.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:21:35PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Kurt,
> 
> * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:13:00PM CET:
> > 
> > It seems most of the files have this in them:
> > # GNU Libtool is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > # (at your option) any later version.
> > 
> > But the COPYING file has version 3 in it.
> 
> Erm, I can't see that in
> <http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.1b.tar.gz>.  Where did you
> get the tarball from?

It seems that someone thought it was a good idea to remove the COPYING
file in the clean target of the Debian package.  automake then readds it
but changed it to version 3.  This wasn't a good idea obviously.


Kurt