Re: Move to LGPL3

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Having studied the FSF licenses and their restrictions, I think
> it would be reasonable to re-license GTK+ under the LGPLv3
> (or later) + GPLv2 linking exception (or, alternatively, simply
> multi-license it under LGPLv3 / GPLv2).

Hmm, there's a nifty idea.  All GPLv2-compatible projects could still 
use gtk without any changes, and, as you say, all closed proprietary 
apps would be forced to follow the terms of the LGPLv3 for gtk.

Open question: are there any weird legal side-effects of dual-licensing? 
 I recall a big deal in the *BSD community not to long ago where some 
people didn't believe that dual-licensing was even legal (or something 
like that).

Aside from that, would there be any downsides to any existing open 
source apps that use gtk?

	-brian