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On 09/18/2015 04:07 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> To be honest libsoup isn't very clear
...
> Dan: exactly what license is libsoup under?  LGPL v2 precisely, or LGPL
> v2 or greater?

I don't know either. :-)

It was initially written at a time when Ximian was explicitly using the 
"v2 only" license on evolution (because reasons), so it's possible that 
libsoup was intended to be v2 only, since it was more-or-less part of 
evolution. But then, Novell relicensed evolution to v2+ later on, so 
presumably, if libsoup actually was v2-only at that point (which it may 
not have been), then surely Novell *intended* to also make libsoup v2+, 
despite not having said so. So... "maybe it used to be v2+" + "probably 
it was intended to have been changed to v2+ later if it wasn't already" 
+ "certainly everything written since 2007 was intended to be v2+" == 
"probably definitely it's v2+ now" ? That's totally how the law works, 
right?

-- Dan