Some thoughts on MySQL and Oracle

But, given the hypothetical situation of a distro shipping some LGPL3 library as standard, then why couldn't a GPL2 app (not distributed as part of the distro) make use of that same exception you quote in order to use the LGPL3 library without changing its own license? (And, following from that, one could easily produce a distro that distributes the library as standard, if one chose to, which means that effectively ANY LGPL3 library fits into this exception... And, of course, you couldn't stop end-users from using your app on a different distro that didn't ship the lib as stock, and what they do with combining your app with non-compliant libs on their own systems is out of your hands and out of the scope of the GPL...)