Le mardi 06 juillet 2010 à 13:49 +0000, [email protected] a écrit : > Hi! > > > At the point that your application is used with a LGPLv3 library then it > > would conceptually be 'upgraded' to GPLv3 at that time (so that the > > GPLv2 clause preventing linking with LGPLv3 disappears). This doesn't > > mean that you have to change the licence of existing code -- you just > > keep it "v2 or higher". > > So far so good. But if I may want to link against a LGPLv2 library at the > same time it won't work. Because from the matrix, my code will be treated > as GPLv3 which means I am not allow to link against LGPLv2.
This is wrong, you can, see http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq#compat-matrix-footnote-7 Problematic libraries are those tht are GPLv2-only (such as goffice). > I don't know how many (L)GPLv-only modules there are in GNOME, but any of > those will be in trouble when a core library changes its license. As > copyright is usually left to individuals in GNOME it is also nearly > impossible to change those modules. > > So, I see pratical problems here... > > Regards, > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
