> I personally don't see any reason one could not combine code under the > GPL with code under the LGPL, leaving all license notices intact, and > then distribute the resulting work as a whole under GPL terms. To claim > otherwise would seem to imply that doing this violates the terms of > either the LGPL or GPL; on what grounds would this be true?
Section 3 of the LGPL? <quote src="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html";> 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. To do this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, instead of to this License. (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you wish.) Do not make any other change in these notices. </quote> I think Hixie's saying that if you want to combine with GPL code, you have to change all the notices, as section 3 requires, before you can do so. This is inconvenient (and may make returning changes to the original codebase more complex.) Gerv
