On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Tobias Grosser wrote: > On 08/29/2011 04:01 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > I looked at the ISL sources and saw that they generally had license > > notices of the form: > > > > * Use of this software is governed by the GNU LGPLv2.1 license > > Hi Joseph, > > at least according to a license compatibility chart[1] published by the > FSF, it is OK to combine a LGPLv2.1 only library with a GPLv3 project. > > Is there any reason the compatibility matrix published by the FSF might be > outdated or may not apply to us, or do you think we can rely on this > information?
Thanks for pointing this out. Having checked the LGPLv2.1 I think it is in fact OK after all (I may have been thinking of two other problems, the problem we had with polylib which was GPLv2 rather than LGPL and the inability to use LGPLv3+ libraries with GPLv2-only programs). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
