Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> added the comment:

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:06:22AM +0000, Alex Converse wrote:
> 
> Alex Converse <[email protected]> added the comment:
> 
> > You are quoting from (L)GPL version 3, this is not the version that
> > applies here...
> 
> Dumb question. Why can't he choose to use version 3? Isn't that what the
> "--enable-version3" configure flag is all about? Is there something in this 
> mess
> that sticks us on GPLv2-only?

I don't know if all the other libraries involved here are v3-compatible.
If we hypothetically assume that they are, then yes, the license could
be upgraded.  But this is not what happened here.

Furthermore, all versions are being violated in this case.

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