[Fedora-legal-list] Linking of GPL-only and GPL-incompatible libraries

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 09:51 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> That's actually not true—you still need to invoke the system library 
> exception for GPLv2-only programs because one of the dependencies, GMP, 
> is LGPLv3+ in its current versions.  Attempts to dual-license it under 
> LPGLv3+ and GPLv2, like GNUTLS itself, have failed so far.

Ah yes, good point. For the Android build of OpenConnect I had set it up
to build against GMP 4.2 for that very reason. GnuTLS still works with
that version, I believe.

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dwmw2

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