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Planning for decades

Posted Apr 5, 2012 20:10 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Planning for decades by jzbiciak
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

What you should do then (if you can) is to treat the GPL2 code like a LGPL2 library - keep it in its own section of the source tree, and leave it at GPL2+.

If you make major changes you can then decide whether to move it into the main GPL3 tree or not.

Cheers,
Wol

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