Considering relicensing to GPLv3+



Hi all,

You may have noticed that View Source is broken in Epiphany 3.14, after
this functionality was removed from WebKit. For 3.14.2, we have a
workaround in place that will open the page's source in your default
text editor, but this is pretty crummy. We've been discussing a solution
in [1] involving the Rainbow syntax highlighting library. Rainbow uses
the Apache 2.0 license, which is incompatible with GPLv2 but is
compatible with GPLv3, so to use it we need to upgrade our project
license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+. We don't have to adjust the license on
our source files (though that would be the least-confusing approach and
that's what the FSF would want us to do) and we don't need permission
from anybody, since all the source files are licensed GPLv2+ already,
but the overall project license (in the about dialog and COPYING file)
would have to change to GPLv3+.

Only a few GNOME programs like Terminal and Builder are using GPLv3+, so
I wanted to see if there were any objections to this change.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738475

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