On 2/26/11 9:20 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
On 26 February 2011 13:57, Jeroen Demeyer<jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
On 2011-02-26 14:30, David Kirkby wrote:
On 26 February 2011 12:45, David Joyner<wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
So it seems to me we need to "upgrade" to GPL 3, but then that would
stop us using some code which is GPL 2 only. It seems a catch 22.
Which standard packages are GPL2 only? I didn't know there were any.
Just a search of the "COPYING" file shows:at least the following
appear to be GPL 2 only. I've not investigated these thoroughly,
though.
At least Mercurial and PARI are GPLv2+. But for example R is GPLv2 only.
Are you sure about Mercurial and Pari?
http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/
says "Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License Version 2." If one clicks the link to the
license
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
it says GPL 2, with no mention of GPLv2+, or "any later version", so
I'm unsure how you arrive at that.
That's confusing, because the FAQ says GPLv2+:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/License#What_is_Mercurial.27s_license.3F
Jason
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