GPL v2+, GPL v2, GPL v3, LGPL v2, LGPL v2+ ?

[Gábor Lehel]

On 9/6/06, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 6 September 2006 11:37, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > Once krita link to something
> > which is v3, it means all code degrade to v3 as well until the
> > dependency is removed. Whereas with LGPLv2 the code remains under the
> > term you wanted it to be.
>
> I think we should be more concerned that code from one file can not
> be 'ported' to another file anymore if the licenses differ.
>

I was under the impression that you could port BSD->*GPL, LGPL->GPL,
and GPL2+->GPL3, but not *GPL->BSD, GPL->LGPL, or GPL2->GPL3.

Not sure what the situation is with GPL3->GPL2+, or GPL(+) and LGPL(+)
with different versions.


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