[Fedora-legal-list] Linking an LGPL library statically to an GPL program

[Joerg Schilling]

Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes but you are missing one thing. The library is LGPLv2. It is not LGPLv2+.
> Doesn't it make the resultant binary GPLv2, without the + ?

There is nothing in the GPL that requires you to put binaries under GPL.
In fact, you can't even do this in many cases. You just need to follow the
conditions in section 3 for the binary.

If you ever like to convert LGPLv2 code to GPL, you of course cannot convert it
to GPLv2+ but only to GPLv2.


Jörg

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