Re: Licensing problem LGPLv3+ vs. GPLv2only conflict

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> a écrit :
>On 07/20/2013 12:30 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>>> There is another minor issue: gnulib.
>> 
>> Normally one would specify the licensing constraints when importing
>> Gnulib modules, with --lgpl=2 in that case.
>
>Hello Ludo,
> Unfortunately that cannot be practically be used. It would require
>splitting into two gnulibs, one for the src/ directory and one for the
>lib/ directory. That would mean two copies of the same files, and twice
>the configure time checks. Given the (extremely large) number of checks
>gnulib adds to configure, that doesn't seem like a reasonable solution.

If GnuTLS is to be usable as LGPLv2, then --lgpl=2 must be used.
Otherwise you implicitly acknowledge that it's not v2 in actuality,
because you know you're possibly pulling v3 modules, no?

Ludo'.