Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <k...@iki.fi> writes: > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: > >> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <k...@iki.fi> writes: >> >>> I believe GPLv2+|LGPLv3+ is incompatible with >>> GPLv2|OpenSSL-linking-exception, used in ekg2. >> >> Thank you for a good data point. I've brought this up with >> licens...@gnu.org to hear what they have to say about it. > > On second thought, if a program is licensed under GPLv2 with an > additional permission to link with OpenSSL, this permission does > not survive linking with LGPLv2 libraries either, such as glibc > or libidn before your relicensing. (The reason such linking is > allowed by GPLv2 is that LGPLv2 section 3 allows converting to > GPLv2+. The result of this conversion does not have the OpenSSL > exception.) Therefore, I think you can ignore that problem.
Initial response from FSF also suggested that this may not be a problem, but let's see if there is an official response. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d38llvye....@latte.josefsson.org
