On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 08:47 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 04:31:22AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > Once again, sorry for the delay in making the LGPL exception text > > official. > > > > However, I'm now wondering if maybe a change from LGPLv2 to LGPLv3 would > > be simpler. libsigc++ is licensed under "either version 2 of the > > License, or (at your option) any later version" so changing it to > > "version 3 or later" would be a lot less work. > > > > I think LGPL3 seems to allow more than 10 lines of template code in > > headers, as long as you say that you are using the library, but I'm not > > completely sure: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html > > One thing that I think merits consideration before making this change: > GPL2 compatibility. It seems that moving to LGPLv3 means that GPL2-only > programs can no longer use the latest libsigc++[1]. I'm not sure if there > are any, or how much of a concern this would be in practice, but it > should probably not be ignored. > > - Michael > > 1. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
Yes, I plan to discuss this more widely before doing this. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ libsigc-list mailing list libsigc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libsigc-list