Hello,

Le 25/03/2013 11:31, Niels Möller a écrit :
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 
> <[email protected]> writes:

>> If by encouragement you mean something else could you please clarify
>> that?
> 
> CUPS seems to be the most well-known example of a GPLv2-only program
> which uses (or should use) gnutls, which then depends on gmp and nettle.

We also use gnutls (and nettle, and thus gmp) in VLC media player.

While technically our code is GPLv2 or later, we would prefer to
distribute binaries under GPLv2, as stated in our press release:
http://www.videolan.org/press/2007-1.html

To remain compatible with GPLv2 we are using an old release (4.2.1)
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7e69850c6cf579dc01ff2e7c20caceef9b71867b;hp=7b3e31f94abd5b71f26ec096b78520e57cd887f4

which lacks for example compatibility with Windows 64bits, and according
to Martin Storsjö, it also gives problems on MacOSX.

I'm willing to help you with dual-licensing LGPLv3/GPLv2 as it would
very much help us on VLC.

> I know almost nothing about CUPS. So if GMP relicensing is required to
> suit CUPS' needs, then it would be encouraging if someone who actually
> *knows* CUPS (both technically and the licensing/policy issues) would
> step forward and be willing to discuss it.
> 
> If we go only by third-party information, we might end up going through
> a relicensing process which distracts us from real work, only to learn
> later thet the CUPS maintainers decided to use openssl exclusively
> anyway.

Regards,
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