Compatibility of LGPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1 in same library.

2024-06-06 Thread Arun Kumar Pariyar
Dear Legal Team, Can LGPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1 licensed code be used together in the same library, or is re-licensing required? Your guidance on their compatibility would be greatly appreciated. Regards, ~ Arun Kumar Pariyar OpenPGP_0x4B542AF704F74516.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP

Re: Compatibility of LGPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1 in same library.

2024-06-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
According to the GNU compatibility matrix https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility[1] the answer is that, without permission from the original copyright owners, you can combine the code if you re-license the combination as either GPLv3 or GPLv3+. If you want the combined co

Re: Compatibility of LGPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1 in same library.

2024-06-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-06-06 Arun Kumar Pariyar wrote: > Dear Legal Team, > Can LGPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1 licensed code be used together in the same > library, or is re-licensing required? > Your guidance on their compatibility would be greatly appreciated. Hello, AFAIK, please doublecheck: LGPL 2.1 (3) allows re