Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3

[Corinna Vinschen]

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
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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