Re: Move to LGPL3

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
>   
> > 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).
> > >   
> > >       
> > But you can't do that. Gtk is *LGPL*-2, so you can't
> > make it GPL-2 (unless you convince all contributors,
> > including aliens and dead).
> >     
>
> Yes, you can.  Quoth the LGPLv2.1:
>   

Right. My bad, confused the order. I will not
talk about licenses without consulting  my
lawyer first ;)

Yevgen