Re: libidn re-license
* Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> [120309 13:11]:
> 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+. [...]
To be a problem to link it with GPLv2, there needs to be an additional
restriction (otherwise BSD would be a problem just as well).
What restriction do you think is in LGPLv2 that is not in GPLv2?
Bernhard R. Link
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