Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> 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...  :-(

Is this going to be a problem for the kernel?  It is definitely not
going to go to GPLv3.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu