Hmm, and what will happen to applications using at least one GPLv2-only libraries?
Regards, Jean Le samedi 15 mars 2008 à 21:03 +0100, ryan lortie a écrit : > Hello. > > After some talk at the Hackfest about it, I'm writing the list to > officially request that glib and GTK be moved to LGPL "version 3 or > later". > > The reasons for this are the increased clarity in the language of the > license plus the ability to accept LGPL3 code into glib/gtk ((since it > seems like things will be increasingly using LGPL3 in the future)). > > There is also the matter of the additional protections offered by the > LGPL3. Everyone I talked to at the hackfest was in favour of these. > > There is the option of simply making a policy change and saying "we now > accept code under LGPL3+, but existing code is still LGPL2+" and leaving > all of the copyright notices alone. Tim thought that probably it would > be a better idea to change all of the headers to explicitly state LGPL3+ > (in order to, among other things, avoid confusion about what license new > contributions occur under). > > If we decide to change all of the existing copyright notices, I'd > volunteer to make the patch to do so. > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list