On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 05:07:15PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > Why not? The traditional (though possibly retro-justified) theory of > LGPLv2.x compatibility with GPLv2 is the 'convert to GPL' section 3 of > LGPLv2.x > > (even though its requirements are almost never followed in > any relevant situation). This says you can convert to later versions > of the GPL. > > - Richard It appears as though you're right. Is there a history of folks changing this section to read like the GPLv2 (hard) to avoid the upgrade-ability of the LGPLv2.1? (and wow, I've missed that for years, thanks, Richard) Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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