[Fwd: License statement in source files (Evolution/Bug #660004)]



	Hi,
as is stated in bug [1], there is used a suboptimal license statement in
evolution's source files, the bug reads:
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        The file composer/e-msg-composer.c (and possibly more files)
        have the following
        license statement:
        
         * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
         * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
         * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
         * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) version 3.
        
        Technically there never was a Lesser General Public License 2. When LGPL 2 was
        released 'L' stood for 'Library'. When 2.1 was released it was renamed to
        'Lesser' and it has remained that ever since.
        
        The current license statement is technically incorrect and it leads to
        mismatches when scanning the code with for example FOSSology.
        
        It would be great if the license statement could be corrected. Please talk to
        the GNOME lawyers or Karen Sandler from GNOME about this.
        
------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm willing to help here, but I do not know how to change it. Is there
any exact text used for copyright/license statements in source files for
projects using both LGPL v2 or v3, please? I can also take a licensing
statement from another file, I only do not want to do it wrong.
	Thanks and bye,
	Milan

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[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660004





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