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From: Brett Smith
Subject: www/licenses gpl-faq.html
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:00 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     07/07/16 13:55:00

Modified files:
        licenses       : gpl-faq.html 

Log message:
        In a previous edit, I overgeneralized the footnotes for various LGPL
        conversions.  This fixes them.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/gpl-faq.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.104&r2=1.105

Patches:
Index: gpl-faq.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/gpl-faq.html,v
retrieving revision 1.104
retrieving revision 1.105
diff -u -b -r1.104 -r1.105
--- gpl-faq.html        11 Jul 2007 13:42:56 -0000      1.104
+++ gpl-faq.html        16 Jul 2007 13:54:44 -0000      1.105
@@ -3065,7 +3065,7 @@
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPL&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPL&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
@@ -3073,9 +3073,9 @@
 <td class="nok">NO</td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you upgrade to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
@@ -3083,10 +3083,10 @@
 only</th>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv2&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPL&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-2">[2]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
 <td class="ok">OK&nbsp;<a href="#comat-matrix-footnote-6">[6]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
@@ -3103,8 +3103,8 @@
 <tr>
 <th class="gpl-matrix-license gpl-matrix-border">LGPLv3</th>
 <td class="nok">NO</td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you upgrade and convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you upgrade and convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you upgrade to LGPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#comat-matrix-footnote-4">[4]</a></td>
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
@@ -3128,7 +3128,7 @@
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPL&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-1">[1]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPL&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
@@ -3136,9 +3136,9 @@
 <td class="nok">NO</td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you upgrade to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
 <td class="ok">OK</td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
-<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
 <td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-7">[7]</a><a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-3">[3]</a></td>
+<td class="mok">OK if you convert to GPLv3&nbsp;<a 
href="#compat-matrix-footnote-8">[8]</a></td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
@@ -3201,16 +3201,14 @@
 project contains the code released under LGPLv2.1 only, you will not be
 able to upgrade the project's license to LGPLv3 or later.</p>
 
-<p><a name="compat-matrix-footnote-7">7</a>: Every version of the LGPL
-gives you permission to relicense the code under the corresponding version
-(or any later version) of the GPL.  If you can switch the LGPLed code in
-this case to using the GPL instead, you can make this combination.</p>
-
-<p><a name="compat-matrix-footnote-8">8</a>: Every version of the LGPL
-gives you permission to relicense the code under the corresponding version,
-or any later version, of the GPL.  In these cases, you can combine the code
-if you migrate its license to GPLv3, and use GPLv3 for your own work as
-well.</p>
+<p><a name="compat-matrix-footnote-7">7</a>: LGPLv2.1 gives you permission
+to relicense the code under any version of the GPL since GPLv2.  If you can
+switch the LGPLed code in this case to using an appropriate version of the
+GPL instead (as noted in the table), you can make this combination.</p>
+
+<p><a name="compat-matrix-footnote-8">8</a>: LGPLv3 gives you permission to
+relicense the code under GPLv3.  In these cases, you can combine the code
+if you convert the LGPLed code to GPLv3.</p>
 
 <a name="matrix-skip-target"></a>
 </dd>
@@ -3251,7 +3249,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2007/07/11 13:42:56 $
+    $Date: 2007/07/16 13:54:44 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>




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