On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:59:51PM -0800, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > Hello board, > > Section 9 of GNU GPL says: > > The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions > of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions > will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in > detail to address new problems or concerns. > > Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program > specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and > "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and > conditions either of that version or of any later version published by > the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a > version number of this License, you may choose any version ever > published by the Free Software Foundation. > > Almost all of our files say "released under GNU GPL" without > specifying the version; thus they are effectively under GPL v1+. The > only offenders I've identified are: > > src/xml/quote.cpp > src/main-cmdlineact.h > src/main-cmdlineact.cpp > src/live_effects/lpe-jointype.h > src/live_effects/lpe-jointype.cpp > > 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?
RMS contacted me about this situation with inconsistent GPL licensing earlier this year. It's good to get the licensing cleaned up to be GPLv2, thanks for undertaking the effort. It'll be good to have this straightened out for the release. Bryce > Best regards, Krzysztof > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
