GNU GPLv3 and GNU LGPLv3
Two days ago the licenses indicated by me in the title of the license were officially published, what do they carry to us?
On the one hand, these are licenses that will finally protect users of free software from patents. On the other hand ...
On the other hand, we face a great danger. We have a kernel under GPLv2 only (Linux kernel), while GNU libc (glibc) is released under LGPLv2 or later, everything is fine, but at the moment when GNU libc is released under LGPL v3 only (or later) we get the impossibility of linking to products under GPLv2 only, including the kernel, and I want to remind you that the GNU libc uses core inclusions.
There is also a big problem, if glibc GPLv3 only is released and with everything related to Qt, because Qt GPLv2 only cannot link to GPLv3 product ...
What are we preparing new licenses? What rake do we stand for? What are your opinions, colleagues?
On the one hand, these are licenses that will finally protect users of free software from patents. On the other hand ...
On the other hand, we face a great danger. We have a kernel under GPLv2 only (Linux kernel), while GNU libc (glibc) is released under LGPLv2 or later, everything is fine, but at the moment when GNU libc is released under LGPL v3 only (or later) we get the impossibility of linking to products under GPLv2 only, including the kernel, and I want to remind you that the GNU libc uses core inclusions.
There is also a big problem, if glibc GPLv3 only is released and with everything related to Qt, because Qt GPLv2 only cannot link to GPLv3 product ...
What are we preparing new licenses? What rake do we stand for? What are your opinions, colleagues?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11632/
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