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Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty



On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote:

[...]
> Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now, when
> we have a LGPLv3 only glibc in the archive, we'll no longer be able to
> distribute GPLv2-only compiled executables.

Unless the GPLv2-only work copyright holder(s) add(s) a special
exception, similar to the one needed to link with the OpenSSL library,
right?

This scenario is worrying me...  :-(

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