LGPL vs. GPL + Classpath Exception

[Matthew Flaschen]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> And since they are all extra permissions on top of a base license (or at
> least will be when LGPLv3 will be expressed as GPL + exception) they are
> all compatible already anyway since the only thing they do add is extra
> permissions. So in that sense you could say they are already unified.

That's true, but having GPL as a lowest common denominator here is kind
of counterintuitive since all the licenses allow proprietary works to
use the library (which GPL does not).  It would be better to have LGPLv3
as the lowest-common denominator for these libraries instead.  Of
course, that would still leave GPLv3 the overall lowest common denominator.

Matthew Flaschen