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Add LGPL as an OSS license #14734

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@pento pento commented Mar 31, 2019

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LGPLv2.1 is GPLv2 compatible, but LGPLv3 is not.

When a package declares its license as LGPL (as it xmldom does, for example), we can't assume which LGPL license is intended, so have to assume it's not going to be GPLv2 compatible.

This PR addresses pento/testpress#137.

@pento pento added [Type] Enhancement A suggestion for improvement. [Tool] WP Scripts /packages/scripts labels Mar 31, 2019
@pento pento self-assigned this Mar 31, 2019
@pento pento merged commit 14d0e2c into master Apr 1, 2019
@pento pento deleted the add/check-lgpl-license branch April 1, 2019 01:37
@pento pento added this to the 5.4 (Gutenberg) milestone Apr 1, 2019
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