Upgrading to LGPLv3?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eventually, we may want to switch to LGPLv3.  As you may already know,
the main issue is that releasing `libguile' under LGPLv3 will preclude
applications released under the GPLv2 *only* from using it [0].

I'm not sure there are many such applications but this very possibility
may be a sufficient incentive to delay the switch until the next stable
release or so.  There have been discussions on `gnu-prog-discuss' about
other libraries that have similar concerns (e.g., GnuTLS), and the
decision was indeed to delay the licence upgrade.

Opinions?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility