Re: Move to LGPL3

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Having studied the FSF licenses and their restrictions, I think
> it would be reasonable to re-license GTK+ under the LGPLv3
> (or later) + GPLv2 linking exception (or, alternatively, simply
> multi-license it under LGPLv3 / GPLv2).
>   

But you can't do that. Gtk is *LGPL*-2, so you can't
make it GPL-2 (unless you convince all contributors,
including aliens and dead). For a linking exception,
you'd need a lawyer to say if it's possible.

Yevgen