Hi,

during a package review I've stumbled over the following problem:

- a package ships the following in its tarball:
a LGPLv2 library
a GPLv2+ main application
- the main application statically links the library and only the resulting binary is shipped in the final rpm

If I interpret http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPL_Compatibility_Matrix correctly, the 2nd table should be consulted and so this mix is acceptable and the license mentioned in the spec file should be GPLv2+ (since the resulting binary would have this license).

I'm a little bit unsure about:
- Does the fact, that the library is statically linked, affects the compatibility or does the same rules apply as for dynamic linking? - Since the LGPL sources would be in the src.rpm, do we have to mention both licenses in the spec file?


Thank you very much in advance!


Best regards,
Christian

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