[PATCH 1/3] LICENSES: replace LGPL-2.1-or-later with Linux license text

* [PATCH 1/3] LICENSES: replace LGPL-2.1-or-later with Linux license text
@ 2020-05-08  6:21 Ahmad Fatoum
  2020-05-08  6:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] LICENSES: import ISC/X11/BSD-2-Clause license Text from Linux Ahmad Fatoum
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From: Ahmad Fatoum @ 2020-05-08  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: barebox; +Cc: Ahmad Fatoum, Roland Hieber

They seem to be the same, but the Linux copy contains some introductory
SPDX-License-Identifier description text and is line-wrapped to 80
characters. Replace our copy with the Linux v5.6 copy to reduce
differences.

The license text itself is applicable to both LGPL-2.1-or-later and
LGPL-2.1. It just describes what further terms apply when the licensed
work specified "or later".

Rename the license to the same name Linux is using.

Cc: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
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 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1-or-later | 468 -------------------------
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 create mode 100644 LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
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