Hey Ryan, On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Ryan Lortie <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Vincent, > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: >> Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our >> platform but not GPLv2 apps? > > In short, yes. > > Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has accepted > enough contributions that it has become an unreasonable proposition to > relicense has made a significant mistake. I don't want to punish them > or anything, but they are the ones who picked a licence that prevents > them from linking against just about anything.
At least one company in our ecosystem has been, at least in some cases, writing GPLv3-only code. Which seems like an odd choice to me that probably needs some justification. There have been a couple emails back and forth from the FSF to attempt to clarify how GPLv3-only interacts with GPLv2+ etc code. The FSF compatibility matrix doesn't really address that. I would suggest that the people who want to use GPLv3 make their own case for it, publicly. Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
