On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Felipe Borges <febor...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Zdenek Dohnal <zdoh...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> CUPS upstream changed license of project to Apache license 2.0, which is
>> now incompatible with GPLv2. This change will be in new minor release of
>> CUPS - 2.3.0, which is currently in developing phase (not in Fedora for
>> now). If someone takes code of CUPS and has its project under GPLv2,
>> please change it to GPLv3 (which should be compatible according
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses
>> ) or try to argument with CUPS developers against this change on their
>> mailing list c...@cups.org .
>>
>> Is there someone who is influenced by this change?
>
> Therefore it should not affect dynamic-linking situations against
> libcups, right?
>

It will. Previously, it was licensed under GPLv2 + LGPLv2 with Apple
exceptions. Now it is ASL 2.0 across the board. GPLv2 projects can not
link to the newer version.



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