License inconsistency

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Issue type
Documentation
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c
Domain
documentation

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Compare the license wording in README and the source SPDX tags with efivar.spec.in and COPYING. Update the inconsistent references so they agree on LGPL-2.1-or-later, then verify that all four locations are consistent and no license-scanner complaint remains.

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Description

According to the README and the SPDX tags in the source the license for efivar is LGPL-2.1-or-later. I think that's what is expected.

But in efivar.spec.in and COPYING it is still LGPL-2.1-only.

The difference is not big but license scanners keep complaining.

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