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Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls? |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:32:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Colin Leroy <address@hidden> writes:
>> Using LGPLv3+ also has consequences for projects that wants to copy
>> code from GnuTLS (they need to be GPLv3+ or LGPLv3+), but that is not
>> something that happens widely enough to care about as far as I am
>> aware. If anyone knows of significant code re-use from gnutls, let me
>> know.
>
> If such code re-use existed, upgrading GnuTLS to v3 wouldn't impact the
> existing code re-uses, but the v2 projects reusing GnuTLS code wouldn't
> be able to update from new GnuTLS code.
Ah, right. So ignoring the code re-use problem should be fine.
Summarizing, the only significant problem I've seen raised so far has
been incompatibility with GPLv2-only projects, and we have a concrete
list of such projects to look more closely at.
/Simon
- Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/09
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Joe Orton, 2008/09/09
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/09
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2008/09/09
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Joe Orton, 2008/09/09
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, David Marín Carreño, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Werner Koch, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Colin Leroy, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Werner Koch, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Alvaro Lopez Ortega, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Alvaro Lopez Ortega, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Stephane Bortzmeyer, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Stephane Bortzmeyer, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Werner Koch, 2008/09/10