Re: Applications linking against GPLv2 only libqt3/libqt4 and [L]GPLv3+ libraries

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Richard Guenther writes ("Applications linking against GPLv2 only libqt3/libqt4 and [L]GPLv3+  libraries"):
> With the last version updates both libgsl0ldbl and libgmp3c2 became
> GPLv3+ respective LGPLv3+.  But there exist numerous applications
> linking against one of these libraries, simultaneously linking against
> one of the Qt libraries which are GPLv2 only and despite having numerous
> linking exceptions, the GPLv3 variants are not amongst them.

Could you give some examples of these applications ?  I think that
this shows that making these libraries GPLv2-only at this stage may
have been a mistake.

Ian.