El dimarts, 14 de febrer de 2017, a les 11:04:11 CET, Jonathan Schultz va escriure: > >> My personal interest stems from having forked okular for my own project > >> (https://github.com/jschultz/okular-tagging), > > > > You've relicensed all of the code to GPL-3 ? > > Not really thought about it, just used GPL-3 as a default licence. > > > Not sure that's illegal but for sure makes cherry-picking changes to the > > real Okular much harder. > > Oh, that certainly isn't my intention. Trying to make sense of GPL's > FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Am I correct that Okular > is licensed under GPLv2 /only/? If that's the case then perhaps I am not > allowed to use GPLv3 for my fork, and should change to GPLv2 or "GPLv2 > or later".
AFAIR most of the code is GPLv2+ and parts of it are LGPLv2+ so probably your relicense to GPL3 is "legal" but just makes it "impossible" to get any of your changes to Okular without you agreeing for a relicense. Cheers, Albert > > Cheers, Jonathan
