LGPLv3 and GPLv2 incompatibility

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Wed Aug 1 22:26:30 UTC 2007


Wilson, Andrew wrote:

> allowing a GPLv2/LPGLv3 combined work by allowing such a
> combined work to be governed by GPLv2's copyleft under LGPLv3.

Which would allow trivial downgrading any V3 licensed code by adding V2 
code with no real purpose other than to benefit from the proposed 
special case.

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