Thanks for raising the issue, and the summary. В Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:51:08 -0400, Hubert Chathi написа:
> or http://price.sourceforge.net/exception.html I am not sure that such an exception is sufficient to eliminate the incompatibility problem -- in fact, I fear that it may not have a legal effect. Riccardo, have you contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this? > - popplerkit links against poppler (based on xpdf) which is GPLv2 The case with poppler is absolutely hopeless, IMHO. The poppler people cannot relicense (even if they want), because poppler was forked off xpdf quite some time ago. Even if the xpdf people relicense, the new license will not apply retroactively to the code base of xpdf at the time the fork happened. This is a major concern also for GNOME (Evince), and it was mentioned on the GTK+ list when they were discussing switching GTK+ and GLib to LGPLv3+. So, until GNU PDF (one of the reasons that this project started is precisely the unavoidable licensing problems with xpdf/poppler) is ready and new applications are (re)written, we'll have to kiss Vindaloo/the PopplerKit stack goodbye. > -- who finds it very ironic that proprietary programs have less legal > problems linking against LGPLv3 libraries than GPLv2 programs do Actually, what is ironic is that after all these years, people still do not understand the copyleft mechanism. Such problems are inevitable if one does the mistake to license a program without "or later". В Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:16:48 -0500, Stefan Bidigaray написа: > I mentioned it on a previous e-mail, the issue needs to be escalated to > and clarified by the FSF. As Hubert explained, there is nothing to clarify. Linking a GPLv2 only app with a LGPLv3 library doesn't violate the license of the library, but the license of the app. The combined object code must be distributable under GPLv2, which is what GPLv2 requires -- and this is impossible. It will always be impossible, because that's inherently the nature of copyleft. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev