Libgcrypt license

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed May 6 09:06:44 CEST 2015


On Tue,  5 May 2015 11:07, jan.svensson at hush.com said:

> Is it a mistake that those two web pages are pointing at LGPL v2.1 and GPL v2, i.e. should it be updated to LGPL v3 and GPL v3?

See AUTHORS:

License (library): LGPLv2.1+
License (manual and tools): GPLv2+

No, the library won't be changed LGPLv3+ because that would disallow the
use with GPLv2only software.  Manual and tools may be changed tpo GPLv3+
but I see no immediate reasons for this.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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