On Apr 16, 9:23 am, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you suggest is to effectively maintain two versions of MPIR, one
> version 2.1 the other 3. We did consider such an option, but it is
> much harder than it seems, and we simply don't have sufficiently many

It is much, much harder than it seems for legal reasons.  Having been
directly exposed to Microsoft's legal team, I'm aware of some of the
difficulties which may not have been considered previously.

The main problem is contamination.  Even a suspicion of contamination
can cause real worries.

It is difficult enough to keep two clearly distinct software projects
separate enough that those who wish to cause trouble will find it hard
to do so.  Attempting to keep LGPL2 and LGPL3 code distinct, and
obviously so, is likely to prove a nightmare.


Paul

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