Re: Simple GTKMM front-end

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 20 Sep 2011, at 21:33, Chris Vine wrote:
> As far as I am aware the only difference between the Library General
> Public Licence v2, and the Lesser General Public Licence v2.1 is the
> change of name.
>
> gtkmm is released under the LGPL-2.0 or later, at the choice of the
> user. That includes the LGPL-3.0, which would be the choice of any C++
> developer because of the template exemption.

An interesting point.  Technically, the "Library" GPL and the "Lesser" GPL aren't the same document - even 
though they might have the same wording.  Just as a loan agreement signed by me isn't the same legal 
instrument as one signed by my neighbour - even though they might come from the same lender and have 
identical wording.  The original Lesser GPL has been superseded and programmers using Lesser GPL code are 
often free to choose version 2 or later, at their discretion.  However, gtkmm isn't released under the Lesser 
GPL.  It's released under the "Library" GPL which I suspect isn't the same legal instrument as the one that 
that got superseded.

As with most legal documents, the only people they tend to benefit are the lawyers..!

John