Comment on docs/lesser.txt

[Rob Landley]

If this was docs/lgpl.txt I'd update 
archival/libunarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c to point to it, but it isn't.

Instead, this is the "oh no, don't use this license!" version.  As far as I 
can tell, the only difference between LGPL 2.0 and 2.1 was renaming it 
"lesser" and prepending a big religious text about how you should never 
license anything under this license because the full GPL is so much more 
matching of the RMS vision, all hail Stallman.  (Because obviously, we can't 
be expected to make up our own minds about this sort of thing.)

Is there any actual difference in the legal parts between 2.0 or 2.1, or is it 
just the propoganda bits?  If not, I'd much rather stick with 2.0...

Also, having bits of libbb under the LGPL is probably a bad thing.  That 
library is not LGPL.  It is, in its entirety, GPL.  We are not intending it 
to be a service to non-busybox programs, it's an internal component of 
busybox, it does not have a stable documented API, and I _really_ don't want 
to muddy the waters on that one.  I put the bunzip2 code I wrote under LGPL 
because I'd like it to replace the mainstream implementation, and that means 
putting it in general-purpose libraries.  This is not the case for libbb.

Rob
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