Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty (original) (raw)

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:58:08 +0200 Andreas Metzler wrote:

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LGPLv3 libraries could not be used in GPLv2-only programs.

I'm afraid that this incompatibility is still true.

AFAIUI, when you redistribute a GPLv2-only program in compiled form, the GPLv2 insists that the libraries the program links with (excluding system libraries...) are available under GPLv2.

But an LGPLv3-only or LGPLv3-or-later library is available under GPLv3, not under GPLv2.

All this, assuming that the FSF's legal theory of linking is correct: this theory has never been tested in court, AFAIK, hence we do not know if it would hold. However, we have to assume that it's correct, to be on the safe side.

Disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD.

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