On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:51 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:47 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote: > > > After discussing this on our mailing list, our preferred solution seems > > > to be a relicensing of goffice, from GPLv2 to GPLv2+. > > > > > > Would this be an option that all copyright holders of gofffice could > > > live with? If so, we'd created appreciate it. > > > > Probably. You might want to start by creating a list of the problematic > > files and who they list as holders of copyright. > > Define "problematic".
Rather than a definition, an example: goffice/gtk/go-dock-item.c is not problematic since it is already licensed under GPLv2+ I think Morten may believe that there are many such files. Clearly files that specify only GPLv2 are problematic and I would think that files that don't mention any licensing also fit into the problematic section. So one would need to go through all the "problematic" files and list the people listed as authors. That would be a good start to be able to ask them about relicensing. Andreas PS: I think it is not quite correct to say that goffice's license (GPLv2), doesn't play nice with one of AbiWord's dependencies, which is LGPLv3+ licensed. It is more likely the other way around considering that GPLv2 predates LGPLv3+. -- "Liberty consists less in acting according to one's own pleasure, than in not being subject to the will and pleasure of other people. It consists also in our not subjecting the wills of other people to our own." Rousseau Andreas J. Guelzow Pyrenean Shepherds _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
