From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add libiax Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 17:01:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20160531210113.GB19631@jasmine> References: <87shx17pbq.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160529005554.GA20220@jasmine> <878tyrwck5.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20160531162555.GA32099@jasmine> <20160531191323.GA21478@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qn2-0004CX-Db for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 17:01:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qmx-0002Qt-At for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 17:01:27 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:53994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7qmw-0002P7-4r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 17:01:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160531191323.GA21478@solar> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:13:23PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:25:55PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > Since I don't understand the fine points of these things, I ask the > > group: can a source distribution be LGPL 2.0 and include GPL components? > > In my understanding, mixing LGPL and GPL (assuming the versions are compatible) > "upgrades" the aggregated works to GPL. On #fsf, they said that LGPL code can always be redistributed under the GPL, although I'm not suggesting we do this. But they did not say that the "upgrade" happends automatically.