Changing from gnutls26 to gnutls28 in quantal?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 08:36:59 PM Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On 7/31/12 6:38 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 15:25 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> >> Le 31/07/2012 15:22, Marc Deslauriers a écrit :
> >>> without checking licensing first.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the reply, can you give some specifics about the changes and
> >> what to check?
> > 
> > gnutls went from LGPL-2.1+ to LGPL-3+, so it can't be linked with stuff
> > that's GPL-2 only. I can't remember the list of packages, but I seem to
> > recall cups and gtk-vnc being part of the problematic ones.
> 
> I like to consider myself knowledgeable about this sort of thing, and
> that being an incompatibility surprises me since I thought that all
> manner of differently-licensed software could link with LGPL libraries.
> 
> Could you point me to some sort of explanation of how this works?

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

Scott K