On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 08:36:59 PM Scott Ritchie wrote: > On 7/31/12 6:38 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 15:25 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > >> Le 31/07/2012 15:22, Marc Deslauriers a écrit : > >>> without checking licensing first. > >> > >> Thanks for the reply, can you give some specifics about the changes and > >> what to check? > > > > gnutls went from LGPL-2.1+ to LGPL-3+, so it can't be linked with stuff > > that's GPL-2 only. I can't remember the list of packages, but I seem to > > recall cups and gtk-vnc being part of the problematic ones. > > I like to consider myself knowledgeable about this sort of thing, and > that being an incompatibility surprises me since I thought that all > manner of differently-licensed software could link with LGPL libraries. > > Could you point me to some sort of explanation of how this works?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
