On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: > 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. Is the Linux kernel linked with any LGPL'd work? AFAIUI, it is not, so no problem for the kernel. The problem arises whenever a work under the GPLv2 (only) is linked with a work under the LGPLv3. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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