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Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3
On Jul 9 14:49, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2007, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > This isn't quite correct. v3 adds restrictions which were not present
> > in v2.
>
> Can you name any that doesn't arguably qualify as a "further
> restriction" already prohibited by section 6 of GPLv2?
>
> That it plugs potential ambiguities is what makes it incompatible.
> These are not really new requirements.
>
> > That's why linking v3 and v2-only stuff violates v2-only, but not
> > v3.
>
> Linking v3 and v2-only violates both. They're mutually-incompatible.
> GPLv2 adds requirements on top of GPLv3, and GPLv3 removes ambiguities
> present in GPLv2, which some frame as new requirements.
Sorry, I just wrote what I got told by a lawyer. Never mind, I shouldn't
have chimed in.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
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