svox pico issues

[Hynek Hanke]

On 3.10.2010 13:26, Andrei Kholodnyi wrote:
> Not sure what do you mean by "a combination".
> e.g. you can use libc in any GPLv3 program w/o any restrictions
>    

libc is LGPL and GPLv3 program is GPL v3,
so you can distribute a combination under GPL v3.

> but if you try to use GPLv3 code in the libc then you need to license
> libc under GPLv3
>    

libc is LGPL and GPLv3 program is GPL v3, so you can distribute
a combination under GPL v3. It's the maintainers decision only and
their strategy to stay with LGPL, in which case they need to reject
GPL v3 code.

The difference is in decision only. Each time, you are combining
two previous works into one single piece.

>As I have explained I do not see any problems with GPLv2


The problem is it is not compatible, so you can't
take an Apache2 piece of code and distribute
as GPL v2:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

So I think the options are GPL v3 or LGPL.

I might be wrong, I'm no expert on licenses.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke

>> So if you agree, we can copyright the SVOX Pico module
>> as GPL v3 or any later and we are done. I think it's not necessary
>> here to LGPL.
>>      
> As I have explained I do not see any problems with GPLv2,
> however I do not plan to license pico under GPLv3.
>
> Andrei.
>
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