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Wayland switching to LGPLv2

The main Wayland libraries will be changing to version 2 of the Lesser GPL (from the MIT license) in the near future. The clients are changing too: "The demo compositor and clients are currently under GPLv2, but I'm changing them to LGPLv2 as well. This is a bit odd on the face of it, but the point of these applications is to prototype new functionality that will eventually migrate into either the client or server wayland libraries or one of the above toolkits. As we move forward and start adding developers, I just want to make sure that that won't be a problem."
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