Karl Berry wrote: > I haven't heard specifically about anything besides glibc and gnutls > staying at v2.
As mentioned in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-07/msg00077.html, libintl and libiconv will also stay under LGPLv2+ for some time. Brett Smith explained to me that essentially - A distributor wishing to link a library licensed under the LGPLv3 with a proprietary application, and distribute that (assuming he has the rights to distribute the proprietary application): can do so, if the library is linked with as a shared lib, and the distributor adds "installation information" (i.e. basically a .spec file), and fulfills some other advertising requirements. - A distributor wishing to link a library licensed under the LGPLv3 with a GPLv2 application, and distribute that: cannot do so legally, because it would violate GPLv2. Therefore, distributing a library under LGPLv3 or LGPLv3+ at this point in time means a free ride for proprietary programs and for BSD-licensed programs, and major trouble for GPLv2 programs. Bruno
