On 02/27/2018 03:22 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > AA. Fedora is not (at this time) concerned about license compatibility > issues arising from the relicensing of CUPS to Apache 2.0, in as much > as this applies to linking of components together (our use case). > > BB. If you are planning on (or have) copying code from CUPS and > including it in a GPLv2 only licensed work, seek legal counsel, that > is a more complicated scenario that Fedora does not face right now (as > far as I know). > > Then I don't quite get A. paragraph, where Tom talks about requirements which need to be done. Tom, would you mind clarify it for me, please? > As I understand the issue - this is only related to a few projects > that are GPLv2 and are using CUPS in such a way that causes license > issues. If that is the case they should simply change their license > to GPLv2 or later. That's the issue - change of license needs mutual agreement of project owner and all contributors, whose made significant contribution into project (AFAIK) . And it can be difficult. > It's that simple. In other words, the onus to fix the issue lies > with the projects that are using GPLv2 - not CUPS. If they don't want > to change their license, going forward they shouldn't be using cups. > Yes, I can package cups 2.3 for Fedora, but I don't want to create additional work for packagers, whose components depend on CUPS, without clear steps what to do when their package is GPLv2 only - because it is not clearly clarified by upstream yet.
I would like to package new cups when I can clearly say - "Hi, CUPS moved to Apache 2.0 license in 2.3.0 version, which is incompatible with GPLv2 only. Packages which are GPLv2 only needs to be re-licensed, there is only way.". > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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