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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nettle: update package to 3.1.1 version.
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On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 14:03 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
> > On 7 July 2015 at 21:09, akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> which recipe? 2.7.1 / 3.1 or both?
> >>
> >> - armin
> >> ( sucks at this licensing stuff)
> >
> >
> > So: 2.7.1 is "LGPL" (v2).
> >
> > 3.1.1 is GPLv2+ or LGPLv3+.
> >
> > An "interesting" choice to say the least. Because the v2 bit is not L, I'm
> > wondering if we will need to keep both versions.  But a 3.1.1 recipe with
> > GPLv2+ *or* LGPLv3+ would be a good start.
> 
> I'd vote YES to keeping the LGPLv2 version available.
> 
> GPL libraries are normally off limits for closed source apps, so the
> new licensing options would be a problem for anyone with a proprietary
> application using nettle in a distro which can't use [L]GPLv3. (I'm in
> that category...).

Surely if you can't use [L]GPLv3, you want the 3.1.1 version which is
GPLv2 (or other things)?

Cheers,

Richard