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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:36:44 +0100
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] Add support for qfloat
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > It really doesn't matter in the context of LGPL so I don't mind if we do 
> > 2.1 only.
> 
> Is LGPL 2.1 compatible with LGPL 3 or GPL 3?
> 
> It would be a shame if it's compatible enough to use in libvirt but
> can't be used in a GPL 3 project.

"LGPL 2.1  only" is not suitable for libvirt actually. Our license is 
explicitly using "LGPL v2.1 or later" so that we can be compatible
with apps using (L)GPL3 too. So yeah I'd really recommend using 2.1+
too

Regards,
Daniel
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