[Geany-devel] Real-time tag parsing (again) (was Geany FTW - better autocompletion)

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 06.03.2011 15:08, schrieb Thomas Martitz:
> Am 06.03.2011 15:05, schrieb Thomas Martitz:
>>
>> Since you link statically, the whole binary package is GPLv3 since 
>> GPLv3 is not compatible to v2. For the source distribution it's up to 
>> each individual source file. 
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility has a nice 
> overview about this.


And this also shows that it doesn't matter whether you link statically 
or dynamically, so I stand corrected. Incorperating GPLv3 code always 
implies making the whole project GPLv3 (unless the project is LGPLv2(+), 
then how linkage is done matters).

Best regards.