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Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (
From: |
Andreas Metzler |
Subject: |
Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle) |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:54:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On 2011-02-20 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> > I have the feeling that the discussion I started is an academic one
> > anyway. Nettle's public key library (libhogweed) uses and links against
> > libgmp, which is LGPLv3+. Therefore switching gnutls from gcrypt to
> > nettle would break GPLv2-compatibility (GPLv2 without the "or any
> > later version " clause). Oh dear.
> It has been discussed to dual-license some libraries under
> GPLv2+/LGPLv3+ to avoid this problem. I wonder if this could be a way
> out here. GnuTLS 2.12 is not released (and there is not even any
> release candidates), so we still have time to resolve this in a good
> way.
[...]
Hello,
Afaik there is nothing GnuTLS can do. It is using the most permissive
license of the involved packages. The culprit is the combination of
third party (L)GPL-v2only software (e.g. cups) with libgmp, which
switched from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+ in 4.2.2.
cu andreas
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- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Andreas Metzler, 2011/02/20
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2011/02/20
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Werner Koch, 2011/02/21
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2011/02/21
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Werner Koch, 2011/02/22
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2011/02/23
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Werner Koch, 2011/02/23
- Re: LGPL library using only LGPL-parts of partially GPL shared library (gnutls, nettle), Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2011/02/23