On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 17:01 +0300, Ernestas Kulik wrote: > (Attempt no. 2, since Geary hates me) > > Hi, > > As the current licensing situation in Nautilus is quite complicated, > I > and Carlos are planning a move to relicense the entire codebase to > GPLv3+. > > The codebase has files under several licenses: LGPLv2+, GPLv2+ and > GPLv3+, the latter implicitly making the project be licensed under > its > terms, so our options are quite limited here. > > The situation wrt extensions is also not entirely clear, as the > extension library is LGPLv2+ with Nautilus being GPLv2+, which in > turn > disallows loading non-free extensions. Given the fact that it is not > meant to be a generic mechanism for loading extensions, I feel like > relicensing it without much consideration is reasonable.
If nautilus is GPLv3+, that means we can't link it against GPLv2-only or LGPLv2-only libraries in the extensions. I'm also not opening the can of worms that is non-GPL-compatible dependencies of extensions (such as proprietary, or patent-encumbered GStreamer plugins), because that's an existing problem. What's the end goal for relicensing? What problems do the current license cause that require a relicense? Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
