Re: libidn re-license
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> On second thought, if a program is licensed under GPLv2 with an
> additional permission to link with OpenSSL, this permission does
> not survive linking with LGPLv2 libraries either, such as glibc
> or libidn before your relicensing. (The reason such linking is
> allowed by GPLv2 is that LGPLv2 section 3 allows converting to
> GPLv2+. The result of this conversion does not have the OpenSSL
> exception.) Therefore, I think you can ignore that problem.
Initial response from FSF also suggested that this may not be a problem,
but let's see if there is an official response.
/Simon
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