I'll let Brian speak for himself, but given that the TigerVNC Java viewer shares a lot of code with the soon-to-be-released TurboVNC Java Viewer 1.2 (which Brian contributed a great deal to as well), upgrading the Java portion of TigerVNC to GPL v3 is likely to create problems. There is a great deal of cross-pollination between the code bases in terms of bug fixes and even some features that I've developed in TurboVNC that have made their way back into TigerVNC via Brian's work. It's a two-way street-- I've ported some of TigerVNC's code as well, including the flow control extensions. Both projects benefit from this kind of technology exchange, and I don't want to see it hampered.
My basic opinion of GPL v3 has not changed since we discussed this previously: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=21715371 In a nutshell: most of the VNC code bases are still GPL v2, and thus upgrading TigerVNC to GPL v3 has a lot of downside (eliminating the ability to easily cross-pollinate with other VNC code bases) with little discernible upside. Personally, I think you're interested in upgrading just for the sake of upgrading, and so far, a solid case has not been presented for the advantages of GPL v3. On 2/15/13 2:24 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: > We've done a whole lot of changes since 1.2.0, so I'm starting to feel > like it could be time to do another release of TigerVNC. One issue I'd > like to revisit for that release is that of an upgrade to GPLv3. > > Last time we had this discussion, Cendio was for it and so was Adam. > DRC was opposed to it though. Since then DRC has moved away from > TigerVNC, and we've gotten Brian Hinz as a major contributor of Java > code. So what are the opinions of the current development group? Cendio > is still very much for a change. > > Rgds > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-devel mailing list > Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
