* Simon Josefsson: > I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it > from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. I'd like to upload the latest version > into Debian before Wheezy since a pretty nasty inifinte-loop bug has > been fixed.
Should we get that into stable-security, under the old license? > I have looked at licenses of reverse dependencies, and I did found > some GPLv2-only packages. That caused me to dual license the > package instead of going to LGPLv3+. This is appreciated. > (GPLv2-only and LGPLv3+ are incompatible.) Nowadays, almost all GPLv2-only programs link to library code licensed under the GPLv3 (with a linking exception on the library side), so we pretend that they are, at least to some degree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d38og8qf....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
