Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-20 Thread Pavel Alexeev
19.01.2012 17:03, Kevin Kofler wrote: Pavel Alexeev wrote: But how I should then deal with licensing in my situation if its mismatch? There is no mismatch, it's OK to include GPLv2+ code in a GPLv3+ program, the result is just GPLv3+. (You can also declare License: GPLv3+ and GPLv2+, but if

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Pavel Alexeev wrote: But how I should then deal with licensing in my situation if its mismatch? There is no mismatch, it's OK to include GPLv2+ code in a GPLv3+ program, the result is just GPLv3+. (You can also declare License: GPLv3+ and GPLv2+, but if everything is getting linked into a

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Pavel Alexeev wrote: We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it? IMHO, that's not a library, ergo not a bundled library. Sure, it would be nice to have that code made into an actual library, but I

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-18 Thread Pavel Alexeev
18.01.2012 21:02, Kevin Kofler wrote: Pavel Alexeev wrote: We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it? IMHO, that's not a library, ergo not a bundled library. Sure, it would be nice to have that code

Bundled part of code

2012-01-17 Thread Pavel Alexeev
Hello. We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it? I work under packaging new version of qutim [1] which is under GPLv3+ and CC-BY-SA and author copied few files to work with rtf format from fbreader

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-17 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pavel Alexeev fo...@hubbitus.com.ru wrote: Hello. We have forbidden bundle libs. But what status if from one project copied some source files into another and it is not lib to link it? I work under packaging new version of qutim [1] which is under GPLv3+ and

Re: Bundled part of code

2012-01-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/2012 04:01 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote: No, it really should use the system version. If it's not in Fedora, submit it as a review for a new package. -J If I read correctly there is no system version since the code discussed is not a