LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 5, 2021 3:12 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: LibreSSL languishes on Linux by Sesse
Parent article: LibreSSL languishes on Linux

It's compatible with GPLv3, which makes it compatible with "GPLv2 or later", so that solves the vast majority of compatibility issues.

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LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 5, 2021 6:31 UTC (Tue) by krijgdenergstenkanker (guest, #125984) [Link] (2 responses)

That's an inversion of how licence compatibility work.
For a licence x to be compatible with GPLv2/3, it must be compatible with both v2 and v3.
Since v2+ is a potentially infinite list of licences, no licence is compatible with it except a subset of itself.

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 5, 2021 6:47 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] (1 responses)

If a work is GPL v2 or any later version, then you may take it as any particular version. If you're linking it with some other piece of software that is only compatible with v3, then the work is effectively GPL v3. It can be limiting, since the work is effectively no longer GPL v2 unless you don't link it with SSL, but it is legit.

LibreSSL languishes on Linux

Posted Jan 5, 2021 23:35 UTC (Tue) by pm215 (subscriber, #98099) [Link]

Some code is GPL-v2-only, though, and in that case you can't use the 'treat as v3' trick that you can with GPL-v2-or-any-later-version licensed code.