Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now, > > > when we have a LGPLv3 only glibc in the a

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Walter Landry
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote: > > [...] > > Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now, when > > we have a LGPLv3 only glibc in the archive, we'll no longer be able to > > distribute GPLv2-only compiled execu

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The whole point behind LGPL is that the LGPL library must be independently distributable, and independently upgradeable. If your program is GPL (any version), then it is compatible with any LGPL library (any version). I t

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:20:29PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michelle Konzack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >I have coded some programs which are explicit under GPL v2 since I do > >not like v3 (I have my reasons) but I am using a LIB which is currently >

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Gervase Markham
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: If your GPLv2 program links to an LGPLv3 library, then you don't need to give a monkeys. The whole point behind LGPL is that the LGPL library must be independently distributable, and independently upgradeable. If your program is GPL (any version), then it is compati

Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I have coded some programs which are explicit under GPL v2 since I do not like v3 (I have my reasons) but I am using a LIB which is currently under LGPL v2. Now the new version of this LIB is v3. What should I do? DON

Re: GPL v3 app with copied GPLv2 or later source and linked against LGPL-2 or later libraries

2007-07-14 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes What you are doing is saying "gpe-cash contains some code that is '2 or later' and some code that is '3 only' or '3 or later', therefore 3 is the only licence that is valid for gpe-cash". To re-iterate. You are NOT changing

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > I agree that the GPLv3 is not "compatible" with the OpenSSL license, in the > sense that code licensed under the OpenSSL license cannot be included in a > GPLv3 work. However, the GPLv3 does include a broader (if no more easily

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more >>> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to >>> accept an entirely new license. >> >> I am told that FSF ne

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 14 juillet 2007 à 12:09 +0200, Kern Sibbald a écrit : > Well, it is pretty general purpose. None of the FSF code is network or TLS > related. The FSF files involved are: > > src/lib/fnmatch.h FSF > src/lib/fnmatch.c FSF > src/lib/enh_fnmatch.h FSF > src/lib/enh_fnmatch.c FSF (f

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more > >> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to > >> accept an entirely new license. > > > > I

Re: Debian Logo license infringement

2007-07-14 Thread Ricardo Yanez
> "Ricardo Yanez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've been approached by what seems to be an attorney from a Chilean >> NGO called "Derechos Digitales" (http://www.derechosdigitales.org/), >> pointing out that a financial newspaper called "Diario Financiero" >> (http://www.elfinanciero.cl/) is us

Re: Bacula and OpenSSL

2007-07-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more >> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to >> accept an entirely new license. > > I am told that FSF never grants exceptions so this is a hopeless path t