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:
"You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public
License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. [...]
(If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public
License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you
wish.)"
Personally I think this clause is kinda ridiculous, but it's there,
nonetheless. Any LGPLv#-covered program can be relicensed as a
GPLv#-or-later program as well. Interestingly, my reading of this shows
that, even if you license under "LGPLv2.1-only", someone can relicense
as GPLv2-or-later, or GPLv3-or-later, or even GPLv3-only.
-brian
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