[Libjit-developers] Re: [Pnet-developers] libjit licensing

[Norbert Bollow]

Aleksey Demakov <address@hidden> wrote:

> > While I think that LGPL is a good choice of license, I think that
> > "LGPL v2 or later" is a better choice than "LGPL v2".
> >
> > Or is there a spcific reason against choosing "LGPL v2 or later"?
> >
> 
> I personally have nothing against the "LGPL v2 or later" wording.
> 
> But unfortunately when we discussed it we referred to it just
> as "LGPL" without further specifics. For instance:
> 
> http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/libjit-developers/2007-February/000089.html
> 
> At that time v3 was not ready yet so I think it is a safe bet that
> when we all were saying "LGPL" we all meant LGPL v2.

Currently libjit is licensed "GPL v2 or later".

Also, I believe that it's a general GNU policy to include the "or
later" option.

Therefore I would suggest that the only reasonable way to interpret
a decision to change the license to "LGPL" (without specification
of the version number) would be to keep the "or later" part alive.

IMO there's a major problem with "LGPL v2 only" licensing in that
that's not compatible with GPLv3, and that's a license compatibility
that IMO we should avoid breaking...

Greetings,
Norbert