On 03/05/2013 2:29 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
On May 3, 2013, at 18:42 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>> " one practical problem with requiring GPL >=3 is that it is not GPL-2
>> compatible"
>
> It may mean that one of your users won't be able to use the package, for
example if something else that they need requires GPL-2 licensing.
Actually, with the GPL licenses, usage is not a problem, but distribution can
be.
Yes, absolutely.
Duncan Murdoch
These legalities are a bit inane, and I try to forget about them as far as possible, but
I think trouble kicks in if someone wants to distribute a work that derives from both
GPL-2 and GPL-3 codes. What "derived" means is yet another inane discussion...
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