Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

Dave Plater <dplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's one aspect of ghostscript-8.70 that I don't quite know what to
> put in the License: part ghostscript-omni is built from Omni which is
> LGPLv2.1 or later. The gnu chart states that one is allowed to convert
> LGPLv2.1 or later into GPLv3 and from that I would understand that
> either all references to LGPLv2.1 must be removed or it's alright to
> simply put the licence in as GNUv3.

The LGPL is very obvious with claiming that such a change is unrevocable for the
master copy of a distributor. So if a distributor _really_ makes such a change,
it cannot ship at the same time any software that needs the library under LGPL.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                (uni)  
       joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx