Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

[Hubert Chathi]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:13:32 +0200, Alexander Malmberg <address@hidden> said:

> 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.

Crap.  I was hoping that poppler/xpdf was the only truly problemmatic
case.  Would it be feasible to steal code from xterm instead?  There's
also iTerm that the Étoilé people have started work porting, which is
licensed under GPLv2 or later.

Hubert