[gnutls-devel] Licensing problem LGPLv3+ vs. GPLv2only conflict

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Fri Jul 19 15:58:29 CEST 2013


Hello all,

as was noticed by Debian and GNOME developers and reported here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986347 the GnuTLS 3.x is
effectively LGPLv3+ because it links to gmp which is LGPLv3+ although
the GnuTLS itself is LGPLv2+. The biggest problem it causes is that
multiple software applications that are GPLv2 and use gnutls which
creates the licensing conflict. Is there any way out of this mess?

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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