Re: Move to LGPL3

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:03 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>   
> > "You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public 
> > License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. [...] 
> > (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public 
> > License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if
> > you 
> > wish.)"
> >
> > Personally I think this clause is kinda ridiculous, but it's there, 
> > nonetheless. 
> >     
>
> It is there because implicitely LGPL code linked with GPL code becomes
> GPL as a whole[1], just because LGPL allow setting restriction that the
> GPL does not allow (hence the "Lesser-" part in the name).
>
> Similarly how the v2+ is compatible with v3+ via the upgrade part of the
> licence.
>   

But that clause is a part of LGPL-2, it doesn't say
that it applies only to the case when you have
"LGPL-2 or later". So you can take LGPL-2 (not
"or later") code and release it under GPL-3, while
you can't do that with GPL-2-not-or-later code.
Isn't it funny?

Yevgen