Hubert Chathi wrote:
Unfortunately, the LGPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 [1] by itself, since the LGPLv3 adds extra restrictions, which means that if library B is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3, then A+B is undistributable.
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Of course, this does not work if the application is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 *only*. While looking through the licenses for various Debian packages, I found the following applications that are licensed under the GPLv2:
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- terminal.app
If the GPL2/LGPL3 problems are real, this is problematic for Terminal. The vt100 parsing code is based on the terminal/console handling from the linux kernel and is, for all practical purposes, impossible to relicense.
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