** Changed in: openlp/trunk
Milestone: None => 2.9.1
** Changed in: openlp/trunk
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
** Changed in: openlp/trunk
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: openlp/trunk
Assignee: (unassigned) => Bastian Germann (bastian-germann)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795876
Title:
License violations
Status in OpenLP:
Fix Committed
Status in OpenLP 2.0 series:
Won't Fix
Status in OpenLP 2.2 series:
Won't Fix
Status in OpenLP 2.4 series:
Won't Fix
Status in OpenLP trunk series:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
OpenLP (GPLv2 only) is currently violating at least two licenses: PyQt5's
GPLv3 only and request's Apache 2.0.
There are two options to heal these violations: relicense OpenLP or replace
the dependencies. A third option would be aquiring a commercial PyQt5 license
from Riverbank and replacing requests only, but as it is paid per developer
this seems to be infeasible for an open source project.
REPLACING
=========
Replacing requests would be feasible: urllib is already used throughout the
codebase. Just use it for the currently three files which import requests as
well.
I do not know if it would be feasible to replace PyQt5 with PySide2.
RELICENSING
===========
You would have to use the GPLv3 license to heal both of the violations (GPLv3
is compatible with Apache 2.0). You could also use GPLv2 or later, but the
logical license combined with PyQt5 is always GPLv3. That leads to another
issue: pysword is GPLv2 only and a license move would require you to drop this
optional dependency. But I guess this would be a minor issue as it is not
released yet (?).
I do not know if relicensing is feasible as you would have to ask the
majority of copyright holders to agree with the license change.
In either case you should inform your users not later than with your
next (fixed!) release about the license violation as they could be in
trouble using OpenLP.
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