Hi all, Having studied the FSF licenses and their restrictions, I think it would be reasonable to re-license GTK+ under the LGPLv3 (or later) + GPLv2 linking exception (or, alternatively, simply multi-license it under LGPLv3 / GPLv2).
This method allows people to link GTK+ with any of the following: - LGPLv2.1-only (since it's compatible with "GPLv2 or later"); - LGPLv3 or later; - GPLv2 (because of the linking exception); - GPLv3 (because LGPLv3 is explicitly compatible with GPLv3). Notes: Re-licensing GTK+ won't pose any problems - the current license allows it to be redistributed as LGPLv3/GPLv2 as a whole, so no problem there. The main reason to move to LGPLv3 is usually the patent protection. By using the GPLv2 (as opposed to LGPLv2.1) exception, GTK+ will limit the damage by forcing the proprietary folk to use LGPLv3 (since most of them can't use GPLv2), so the patent protection is still in effect. I always wonder how the programmer has to be a lawyer too these days. :) Thanks, Alexander _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list