Re: Move to LGPL3

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Andrew Cowie wrote:

> This topic was discussed recently on foundation-list.
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2008-March/msg00032.html
>
> In summary, attempting to relicence the library would be, in practise,
> impossible.
>
> No further benefit is gained by discussing this topic further.

Updating the glib & gtk+ headers to LGPLv3 is not relicensing.

Our headers currently state:
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

So, everone is allowed to "redistribute [...] under the terms of the
GNU Lesser General Public License [...] version 2 [...] or [...] later",
which LGPLv3 fullfills.

Accepting LGPLv3 submissions in the future means that the library
as a whole would effectively become LGPL >= 3 licensed.
So then, we might as well adapt our headers to reflect this.

> AfC
> Berlin

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