Many copyright notices have GPL and LGPL mixed up

Submitted by Michał Górny

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#15010)

Description

It seems to be a problem common to the plugins subtree. See e.g. plugins/systray/systray-manager.c:

/*

• Copyright (c) 2002 Anders Carlsson andersca@gnu.org
• Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org
• Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Olivier Fourdan fourdan@xfce.org
• Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Vincent Untz
• Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nick Schermer nick@xfce.org
• This library 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.
• This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
• ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
• FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
• more details.
• You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
• License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
• Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */

(highlight mine)

Note that the firt two clauses refer to GPL. However, the last clause refers to LGPL instead. While that isn't technically a legal problem, it is confusing.

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