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Re: GPLv2 licensing issues


From: Hubert Chathi
Subject: Re: GPLv2 licensing issues
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:31:07 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Graham J. Lee wrote: 

> Presumably, distributing binaries linked against earlier, pre-LGPLv3  GNUstep
> libraries is acceptable too (whether or not anyone likes the  idea); I guess
> the licence change wasn't propagated back through the  SCM history to
> retroactively apply to earlier revisions of GNUstep.

Yes, that's another option, though not a very desirable one.  Even if
the license change was propagated back, earlier versions of GNUstep were
already released under LGPLv2.1, and so the old license can still be
used.

Hubert




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