Re: (L)GPLv3

[Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>]

On 06/07/10 18:17, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi Ted,
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:12 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> >                                                            IANAL but I'm
> > curious if a "standard exception" couldn't be drafted for LGPLv3 to
> > allow linking with GPLv2 programs.  Perhaps with work, that could be
> > GNOME policy going forward?  I like v3, but I think we need to be able
> > to link to v2 programs.
>
> As I mentioned it my earlier emails, it's not a term in the LGPLv3 that
> prevents you from linking GPLv2 programs to it.  It's the GPLv2 in the
> program code that states "you can't link this against anything other
> than GPLv2 code".
>
> Nothing we could add to the library licence (other than dual-licensing
> under GPLv2) could fix this.

Shame GNOME isn't a standard component of an operating system, right?

This all just smells bad. Lets just go BSD :P

Rob

> Cheers
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