[Exist-development] LGPL 2.1 and GPL 2 and all that crap

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

I really detest trying to understand open source licences. I have
placed something which is GPLv2 into eXist-db. eXist-db is LGPL 2.1.
It seems to me that from what I can Google and understand (not much),
that the licences are compatible.

However, I have had some concerns raised that we should not use
anything which is GPLv2. As Linux itself is GPLv2 and many companies
use this, I am not sure I understand the issue.

If anyone is concerned that I should not include GPLv2 libraries,
please tell me, but more importantly please tell me why its important.

Thanks Adam.

-- 
Adam Retter

eXist Developer
{ United Kingdom }
ad...@ex...
irc://irc.freenode.net/existdb