Hi Christophe, Thanks for your interest in GNU Libtool.
I'm redirecting this conversation to the libtool mailing list, as there are many other people here who will also be interested in the answer to this question. On 10 Apr 2012, at 01:18, Christophe Jarry wrote: > I browsed > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/ltmain.m4sh;hb=HEAD > today and I wondered why this file and others were under version 2 of the GNU > GPL. Well it is under version 2 or greater, with a special exception to allow bundling the files necessary to run libtool inside a non-GPL project that wishes to use libtool to help with library compilation. > As far as I know, there is now a version 3 of the GNU GPL that does more to > enforce user freedom than version 2. Is there a particular reason why you use > version 2 instead of version 3 in those files? Yes there is, and our GPL v2+ (with exception) is actually fully compatible with GPLv3 projects if that is your worry. Regarding our tardiness with moving libtool wholesale to GPLv3+, that is due mainly to not yet having a carefully reworded version of our license exception written by the GNU legal team. But, don't worry, it is on the radar, and will come in due course. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
