Re: Move to LGPL3
- From: "Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>
- To: "Behdad Esfahbod" <behdad behdad org>
- Cc: Gtk+ Developers <gtk-devel-list gnome org>, Tim Janik <timj imendio com>, Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com>
- Subject: Re: Move to LGPL3
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:18:00 -0400
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
>
> My take on it is that it's breaking our interface. I'd fine if we tell
> the world that we are going to do the switch in three years from now and
> stick to it, but changing tomorrow is like changing stable API tomorrow.
> Just deprecate the old license now, remove it in 3, 5, whatever years...
I agree with that. It probably doesn't have to be multiple years, and
a 3.0 release might be a natural point for such a change.
Here is the matrix of doom, btw:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPLCompatibilityMatrix
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