Re: GnuTLS in Debian
On 2013-12-28 09:45:09 +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> Relicensing libraries that have long been GPL v2 (or later) or LGPL v2.1
> (or later) to (L)GPL v3 (or later) is, if anything, very antisocial,
> since it locks out users of GPL v2 (only) software and forces the GPL v3
> interpretation onto GPL v2 (or later) software.
You can still old versions of the libraries and port bug fixes.
New features provided by later versions are regarded as new work,
just like if you had to use entirely new libraries.
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