Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

Posted Nov 26, 2012 19:25 UTC (Mon) by tstover (guest, #56283)
Parent article: Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

If this doesn't have anything to do with iOS and friends, then why not go ahead and change to LGPLv3? Why do some people still perceive v3 as bad and v2 good? V3 really does improve all sorts of things.

Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

Posted Nov 26, 2012 19:48 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I thought GPLv2 code couldn't link to LGPLv3 code. Maybe there was some other GPL version incompatibility that I'm mixing it up with? If promoting usage of VLC as a backend of third party code is the goal, LGPLv2 would open it up for more (existing) applications.

Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

Posted Nov 26, 2012 20:31 UTC (Mon) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link]

There is a VideoLAN press release about why they staid with GPLv2 when v3 came out. I would say that it is safe to assume that the same reasons apply for going LGPL v2.1+ instead of v3.