On 02/26/2018 10:41 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 11/08/2017 01:45 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: >> 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. > > On the other hand, libgcc switched to GPLv3+ with exceptions (but > those exceptions do not restore GPLv2 compatibility), so under this > strict interpretation, we could not ship any GPLv2 userspace software > anyway. > > So I wonder if we can just declare CUPS a system library and move on. Solomon asked about the issue on legal list https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TYGLR34XR6L6MAXMVSDNYT3ZYXUKY7FX/ . I concluded from Tom's comment that even declaring CUPS as OS-supplied library needs to be documented in a way (not mention this isn't solution which Debian/Ubuntu would approve). I presented both Tom's solutions (mentioned in his email) to Mike on cups-devel mailing list+github issue, but without any decision yet (pinged him during beta and release candidate). It's sad - I will not package cups 2.3 for Fedora until it is solved...
Github issue: https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5174 > > (It would be a different matter if CUPS itself depended on GPLv2 > components. I have not checked that.) I checked requirements in spec - CUPS doesn't need any GPLv2only component for building nor linking. > > Thanks, > Florian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Zdenek Dohnal Associate Software Engineer Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
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