On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:20:32AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> >> >> I hate to rain on your parade but that's LGPLv3, so it'll probably >> >> be rejected... >> >> You'll need to try binutils 2.17 (that's the latest LGPLv2.1 copy >> >> laying around). > > I'm just a FBSD user. What's all this about, v2.1 vs v3? > Is v3 more restrictive than v2.1? > Or is this more complex? > > forgive my ignorance > > thanks > anton In short, yes v3 is more restrictive that v2.1: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html I misread Peg's original post though, and didn't realize Peg was creating a port -- not trying to import the change into the base system... -GarrettReceived on Wed Jan 21 2009 - 08:42:04 UTC
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