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On Monday 03 November 2008 16:23:12 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008, Benoît Jacob wrote:
> > Ah ok sure, if it's "LGPL 2.1+" then in particular it's "LGPL 3+". I
> > didn't know that one could freely relicense from LGPL to GPL, I
> > understand that makes sense.
>
> That's what makes LGPL compatible with GPL ;)
Hum wait, being "compatible" doesn't mean "allow to relicense", for example
BSD is GPL-compatible but one can't relicense from BSD to GPL (see e.g. the
fuss that happened when a linux driver developer mistakenly relicensed
OpenBSD code to GPL in a wifi driver).
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
Cheers,
Benoit
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