How to deal with typo "2" instead of "2.1" for "GNU Lesser General Public" in headers?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> can it be assumed (and should we) that all contributors actually agreed to the
> "2.1" version of the "Lesser" given there is no "2" version?

Yes.

> Especially as at least all files I checked also contain "or (at your option)
> any later version.", where "2.1" would be a theoretical later version of "2"?
>
> To be on the really safe side I guess one would need to get all contributors
> explicitely agree to the correct version. But pragmatically I would just
> assume people very much were in agreement with 2.1, and this can be considered
> just a typo.
>
> So would anyone strongly advise against simply applying a patch to all those
> license headers and change the "2" to "2.1"?
>

Not me.

Boud