Hi, I usually find the Compatibility Matrix very useful when thinking about licensing issues. Since I have not seen it in this thread yet, I thought I would post the link:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility Cheers Sebastian On 19/05/17 00:05, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 15:47 -0400, Carlos Soriano wrote: >> Maybe I didn't explain well. Emilio points out there could one one of >> those extensions that say GPL2+ to link to a GPL2-only library. But >> that would make the extension itself GPL2 anyway, and it's License >> file would have to reflect that initially. > Again, it wouldn't. The combined work would be GPLv2-only, but each one > of the items keeps its own license. The licenses are compatible. > > You don't have to have an piece of code depending on the exact same > version of the license if those licenses are compatible. GPLv2-only is > compatible with GPLv2+, as the license mentions for that dependency > says: > "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version." > > The selection is "made" automatically when you run those 2 items in the > same memory address space (eg. when you "link" them). > >> It's just a hipotetical case, I checked the extensions dependencies >> in a quick look and look fine (>= GPL+2). > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
