On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 21:48 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:

>> Our headers currently state:
>>   * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>   * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>>   * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

> The LGPL also says:
>  To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
> anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
>
> Which means you can't add more restrictions to the license without
> effectively relicensing.

We're not retro-changing the license of anything that has been
released already, so we're not restricting rights anyone already
has.
We're talking about modifying & redistributing future versions
of GLib & Gtk+ under LGPLv3, which the license clearly allows.

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ciaoTJ
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