LGPL vs GPLv2

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Fri May 20 11:59:03 UTC 2005


Zeno Davatz scripsit:

> Ok, thanks for all the replies. So there is actually no big difference
> between GPL and the GPLv2? Is that correct?

"GPL" is understood to mean GPLv2; the GPLv1 was current only between 1989
and 1991, and very few pieces of software are still licensed under it.
In any case, it differs only verbally from GPLv2.

> So actually the main difference is still between GPL/GPLv2 vs LGPL.

Yes.

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