Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: On 07/03/12 09:01, Simon Josefsson wrote: I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. This effectively means: recipients of the new libidn may choose any license which they could choose for

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
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

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
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

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Kalle Olavi Niemitalo k...@iki.fi [120309 13:11]: 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

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo k...@iki.fi writes: Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org writes: I have looked at licenses of reverse dependencies, and I did found some GPLv2-only packages. That caused me to dual license the package instead of going to LGPLv3+. (GPLv2-only and LGPLv3+ are

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On 07/03/12 09:01, Simon Josefsson wrote: I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. This effectively means: recipients of the new libidn may choose any license which they could choose for the old libidn, except for the LGPLv2 and

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-07 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org writes: I have looked at licenses of reverse dependencies, and I did found some GPLv2-only packages. That caused me to dual license the package instead of going to LGPLv3+. (GPLv2-only and LGPLv3+ are incompatible.) I am not aware of any other license