On 14/07/14 19:45, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Riley Baird wrote: >> If you're worried about the incompatibility between LGPL3 and GPL2, >> you don't have to be. gmastermind.app is only linking to the LGPL3 >> libraries, so the copyleft doesn't apply to it (because of the >> linking exemption). > > You are very wrong here. A GPLv2-only program cannot link with a > LGPLv3 library. Because of this the license of GNUstep Base and GUI > was downgraded to LGPLv2.1+. Unfortunately. > > This is also the reason why glibc's license has not been upgraded; it > would make all GPLv2-only stuff undistributable.
Ah, you're right. The problem isn't the LGPL3; it's the GPL2's requirement for all libraries to be GPL2-compatible. Ah well, I guess it's good in the interests of compatibility that GNUstep's license remained at v2.1 (for all of the other problems that may remain). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53c3aba8.6020...@bitmessage.ch
