Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 20:35:53 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it >> from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. > > So maybe that's a stupid question, but... Why? You didn't have enough > license headaches?
Well, why not? There was a reason the FSF published the LGPLv3 after all. Others have analyzed the reasons than I can (see for example [1] and [2]). The downsides (e.g., changing the license headers, and discussions like this one) appears small in comparison to me. /Simon [1] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Licensing_FAQ [2] http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2007-July/058059.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87399kqiuq....@latte.josefsson.org
