Can't use with GPLv2 under LGPLv3?

Can't use with GPLv2 under LGPLv3?

Posted Jul 10, 2007 13:45 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: Can't use with GPLv2 under LGPLv3? by sepreece
Parent article: Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases

The system library exception essentially says that it is okay to distribute binaries of a GPL'd programs even if they link against system libraries that would not themselves be distributable under the GPL.

However, this would not really help you if the system library had a license that did not give permission to link against GPL'd programs.

So this would be a problem if you had a GPLv2-only application linking against the GPLv3 libsmbclient, as the application code is incompatible with libsmbclient's license.

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