Re: Plugin API

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 11:28 +0200, Albert Graef a écrit :
> Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > I'm afraid you might have some license issue. libspreadsheet is GPL-v2
> > only (which is quite unfortunate, see
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 for related stuff)
> > while your plugin seems to be GPL-v3
>
> Oops, thanks for pointing that out. What a mess. :( Well, according to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPLCompatibilityMatrix I should
> be able to license the plugin as GPLv2+, and this should make it
> possible for ppl to link against both libspreadsheet (GPLv2) and the
> Pure runtime (GPLv3+). Is that correct? Or do I need to add an exception
> to the Pure license that explicitly allows linking the Pure runtime
> against GPLv2 code?

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't give a definitive advice, but as far as I
know, GPLv2 is not compatible with GPLv3. Adding an exception to the
Pure runtime license might fix the issue for now. I'd like gnumeric to
be at least GLPv2 or v3.


> > I don't understand why you need gnumeric-config.h
>
> It was only needed for GETTEXT_PACKAGE, I fixed that now. Thanks.
>
> > gnumeric-features.h should be enough, and is actually needed since it is included from the
> > installed numbers.h, please file a bug report.
>
> Will do.
>
> Albert