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Licensing any library under GPLv2 has the unwanted side-effect that all software using it should also be GPLv2. That was not the intend of assigning this license, hence the now weaker LGPLv2, which does allow different licenses for software using this library.
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Licensing any library under GPLv2 has the unwanted side-effect
that all software using it should also be GPLv2. That was not
the intend of assigning this license, hence the now weaker LGPLv2,
which does allow different licenses for software using this
library.