LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1

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LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
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LICENSES
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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

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Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1.html
Usage-Guide:
  To use this license in source code, put one of the following SPDX
  tag/value pairs into a comment according to the placement
  guidelines in the licensing rules documentation.
  For 'GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 only' use:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
  or:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
  For 'GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or any later
  version' use:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
  or:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
License-Text:

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999

Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
<https://fsf.org/>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as
the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the
version number 2.1.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to
share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are
intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to
make sure the software is free for all its users.

This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to some specially
designated software packages--typically libraries--of the Free Software
Foundation and other authors who decide to use it. You can use it too, but
we suggest you first think carefully about whether this license or the
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