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Re: libidn re-license



Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> I have looked at licenses of reverse dependencies, and I did
>> found some GPLv2-only packages.  That caused me to dual license
>> the package instead of going to LGPLv3+. (GPLv2-only and
>> LGPLv3+ are incompatible.)  I am not aware of any other license
>> that could pose any problem with a dual-licensed GPLv2+|LGPLv3+
>> package.
>
> I believe GPLv2+|LGPLv3+ is incompatible with
> GPLv2|OpenSSL-linking-exception, used in ekg2.

Thank you for a good data point.  I've brought this up with
licensing@gnu.org to hear what they have to say about it.

/Simon


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