Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [aandrejevic] 60485: [SOFT386] Change the license of Soft386 to GPLv2. The previous license was also GPLv2, but it had a runtime linking exception. The new license is the original GPLv2 with no exc...

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

No, LGPL allows link-time merging of non-LGPL object files with LGPL
code, as long as you provide the object files necessary to reconstruct
the binary after changing the LGPL code.

On 2 October 2013 19:36, Colin Finck [e-mail] wrote:
> Aleksey Bragin [e-mail] wrote:
> > Please revert. The runtime linking exception was added for a reason, not
> > for amusement or RMS trolling.
>
> Isn't GPLv2 + "binary linking exception" = LGPLv2 anyway? I've never
> fully understood our license, and therefore all my code is deliberately
> licensed under "original" GPLv2 or later.
> Colin
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