Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Please clarify exact license

[Ian T. <ijt...@gm...>]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 15:18, Emilian Bold <emi...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was browsing GeoTools and I see conflicting evidence about the exact
> license:
>
> 1. https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/main/LICENSE.md lists LGPL
> v2.1
> 2. The GitHub README has the http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
> which goes to LGPL v3
> 3. The website https://geotools.org/about.html correctly links to
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
> 4. The pom.xml (https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/main/pom.xml#L35
> ), which is part of the binary JARs, mentions
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.txt which again serves LGPL v3.
>

Is this not covered by "any later version" ?

>
> Basically, you need to make sure that all link to gnu.org point
> towards the specific version otherwise GNU will replace the version in
> time and always serve the latest LGPL version...
>
> A PR for Maven, etc. should be easy, just use
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
>
>
We're happy to receive pull requests at any time as we are a volunteer
managed project.

Ian