Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) wrote:
That's just FSF revisionism.
It used to be called "Library" over "Lesser", in the original GPL2. "<year>", and the address change) but the main COPYING file still calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License". calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License". I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic internal FSF politics that tried to change history.
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That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General Public" That's just FSF revisionism.That's just FSF revisionism.
It used to be called "Library" over "Lesser", in the original GPL2. "<year>", and the address change) but the main COPYING file still calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License". calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License". I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic internal FSF politics that tried to change history.