Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

[Alexander Malmberg]

Hubert Chathi wrote:
> Unfortunately, the LGPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 [1] by itself,
> since the LGPLv3 adds extra restrictions, which means that if library B
> is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3, then A+B is undistributable.
[...]
> Of course, this does not work if the application is licensed under the
> terms of the GPLv2 *only*.  While looking through the licenses for
> various Debian packages, I found the following applications that are
> licensed under the GPLv2:
[...]
> - terminal.app

If the GPL2/LGPL3 problems are real, this is problematic for Terminal. 
The vt100 parsing code is based on the terminal/console handling from 
the linux kernel and is, for all practical purposes, impossible to 
relicense.

- Alexander Malmberg