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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KCalc and KRegexpEditor Need Maintainers
From:       Sune Vuorela <nospam () vuorela ! dk>
Date:       2007-12-06 5:16:49
Message-ID: slrnflf1e1.ntj.nospam () sshway ! ssh ! pusling ! com
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On 2007-12-06, David Johnson <david@usermode.org> wrote:
> On Monday 03 December 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
>> ...oh, and I forgot to mention that KCalc builds against GMP.
>> But GMP has a new license that is incompatible.  So GMP will
>> need to be stripped out.   At least that's what I've been told.
>
> What is the problem with GMP? I see that it's licensed LGPL3, so it should be 
> perfectly fine for a GPL2 app. Is there a poison pill in LGPL3 I don't know 
> about?

Nope. not perfectly fine. LGPLv3 is GPLv2-incompatible.

(which is I think one of the biggest problems with ?GPLv3)

/Sune

 
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