Re: Move to LGPL3

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:

>
>  My take on it is that it's breaking our interface.  I'd fine if we tell
>  the world that we are going to do the switch in three years from now and
>  stick to it, but changing tomorrow is like changing stable API tomorrow.
>  Just deprecate the old license now, remove it in 3, 5, whatever years...

I agree with that. It probably doesn't have to be multiple years, and
a 3.0 release might be a natural point for such a change.

Here is the matrix of doom, btw:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPLCompatibilityMatrix