2015-11-26 19:10 GMT-08:00 Martin Owens <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 18:59 -0800, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >> which are GPL v2 only. If we rewrote those files or contacted the >> authors to release under GPL v2+, we could change the advertised >> license from GPL v2 to GPL v2+. What do you think? > > This is a very good idea. I don't like the idea of the code base being > unsure with it's licensing and having surprise files is a headache.
OK, I rewrote src/xml/quote.cpp and sent e-mails to the authors of the remaining files. We could very realistically declare GPL v2+ next release, and backporting the quote.cpp file cloud also do it for the 0.91.1 point release. We actually have two bits of GPL v3 only code imported from Gimp: the expression evaluator and the spin-scale widget. Thus the current version of Inkscape technically violates the GPL, and the upcoming versions should be distributed as GPL v3+. As the next step, we should either ask the authors of those two files to release them under GPL v2+ or reimplement them. Best regards, Krzysztof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
