On 2011-05-18 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > "Karl Berry via RT" <licensing at fsf.org> writes: [...] >> Simon> [the idea] is to switch gmp from lgplv3+ to gplv2+|lgplv3+, >> Simon> so that gplv2-only applications can continue to use GnuTLS >> Simon> with GMP.
>> As I was one of the people who drafted that idea with rms, I feel >> confident in saying that licensing change for gmp is fine -- >> solo lgplv3+ to the dual gplv2+|lgplv3+. >> I thought this was what this recent addition to the maintainers >> manual was about? >> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Licensing-of-GNU-Packages >> Exactly. > Thank you! > Torbjörn, is this the confirmation you were looking for? Dear GMP maintainers, this thread seems to died. Is there anything I could to do to help along with the decision? Just to sum it up: * GMP currently is LGPLv3+ * GnuTLS 3.x is using GMP (via nettle) * There is some quite important software which uses GnuTLS is licensed GPLv2 (without the "or later" clause). The most important example is cups. This is blocking e.g. Ubuntu [1] or Debian [2] to upgrade GnuTLS to its latest feature release. * GNU's suggested solution for this problem seems to be to dual license as GPLv2+/LGPLv3+ [3] Thanks for considering this. cu andreas [1] Quoting changelog: gnutls26 (2.12.14-5ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low * Start building gnutls-bin from this source package again, superseding the version in gnutls28: gnutls28's licensing is currently too strict for many of the free software packages built against it in Ubuntu main and we only want to support a single version. Bump its version to achieve this. [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/48975 [3] http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Licensing-of-GNU-Packages -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
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