Re: Request for goffice relicensing

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:51 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:47 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > > After discussing this on our mailing list, our preferred solution seems
> > > to be a relicensing of goffice, from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
> > >
> > > Would this be an option that all copyright holders of gofffice could
> > > live with? If so, we'd created appreciate it.
> >
> > Probably.  You might want to start by creating a list of the problematic
> > files and who they list as holders of copyright.
>
> Define "problematic". 

Rather than a definition, an example:
goffice/gtk/go-dock-item.c  is not problematic since it is already
licensed under GPLv2+

I think Morten may believe that there are many such files. 
Clearly files that specify only GPLv2 are problematic and I would think
that files that don't mention any licensing also fit into the
problematic section.

So one would need to go through all the "problematic" files and list the
people listed as authors. That would be a good start to be able to ask
them about relicensing.

Andreas

PS: I think it is not quite correct  to say that goffice's license
(GPLv2), doesn't play nice with one of AbiWord's dependencies, which is
LGPLv3+ licensed. It is more likely the other way around considering
that GPLv2 predates LGPLv3+.


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to the will and pleasure of other people. It 
consists also in our not subjecting the wills 
of other people to our own."  Rousseau

Andreas J. Guelzow
Pyrenean Shepherds