Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

[Yavor Doganov]

В Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:30:52 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа:

> Just a thought that came to me, that I thought I'd throw out: one
> possibility is to dual-license the GNUstep libraries under bath GPLv2
> and LGPLv3 or later.  This would allow us to keep GPLv2 applications
> (the two big ones that I know of that we would have trouble relicensing
> are Terminal.app (due to the Linux terminal emulation code) and
> PopplerKit (due to the xpdf code)), while keeping the anti-DRM clauses
> of the version 3 licenses for proprietary applications.

At first sight it appears that this approach should work provided that 
other dependent libraries remain under compatible licenses (i.e. it won't 
work if FreeType is upgraded from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later).