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Change: relicense under LGPLv2 #6

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Licensing any library under GPLv2 has the unwanted side-effect
that all software using it should also be GPLv2. That was not
the intend of assigning this license, hence the now weaker LGPLv2,
which does allow different licenses for software using this
library.

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Change: relicense under LGPLv2
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Licensing any library under GPLv2 has the unwanted side-effect
that all software using it should also be GPLv2. That was not
the intend of assigning this license, hence the now weaker LGPLv2,
which does allow different licenses for software using this
library.
@TrueBrain TrueBrain merged commit 63819c3 into OpenTTD:master Oct 16, 2020
@TrueBrain TrueBrain deleted the license branch October 16, 2020 19:30
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