"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcall...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 12:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > Yes but you are missing one thing. The library is LGPLv2. It is not LGPLv2+.
> > Doesn't it make the resultant binary GPLv2, without the + ?
>
> Well, the text of the LGPL says:
>
> "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. To do
> this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so that
> they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2,
> instead of to this License. (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.) Do not make any other change in these
> notices."
Shortening the text does not help to understand the legal problem. The
important next sentence is:
--->
Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for
that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to all
subsequent copies and derivative works made from that copy.
<---
For this reason, the license change typically is no option for an OS
distributor.
Jörg
--
EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni)
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog:
http://schily.blogspot.com/
URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
_______________________________________________
Fedora-legal-list mailing list
Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
