Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

[Graham J Lee]

On 10 Apr 2008, at 18:51, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> If you have a GNUstep program that is licensed under the terms of the
> GPLv2 *only*, you should do one of the following (in no particular  
> order):
>
> - change the license to "GPLv2 or later"
> - change the license to GPLv3 (or later)
> - change the license to something completely different that the LGPLv3
>  is compatible with (e.g. MIT, 3-clause BSD)
> - add an exception that allows linking with the GNUstep libraries or
>  LGPL'ed libraries (e.g. see for example
>  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>  or http://price.sourceforge.net/exception.html

Presumably, distributing binaries linked against earlier, pre-LGPLv3  
GNUstep libraries is acceptable too (whether or not anyone likes the  
idea); I guess the licence change wasn't propagated back through the  
SCM history to retroactively apply to earlier revisions of GNUstep.

Thanks,
Graham.