Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#howto
One should emphasize that the FSF when designing new license versions only considers compatibility to older FSF licenses if they bear the "or later" clause. E.g. it is not possible to combine GPL version 2 software with LGPL version 3 software if the GPL does not offer the opportunity to get upgraded to GPL version 3. That's because LGPL 3 forbids some patent evilness whereas GPL 2 forbids to add forbiddances. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#LGPLv3 According to Richard Stallman, the design flaw is not in LGPL 3 but in issueing GPL 2 without "or later" clause. (Company lawyers may well contradict.) Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
