Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 05 juillet 2010, à 21:58 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : hi Vincent, On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:18 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: It's worth thinking really hard before moving to LGPLv3 (at least; not sure about GPLv3): LGPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2, according to the FSF; that's a

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has accepted enough contributions that it has become an

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread jhs
Hi! hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has accepted enough contributions that it has

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:12 +, j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Well, while I guess all my modules are LGPL/GPLv2+ would that still prevent me from linking against LGPLv3 things if I don't convert them to GPLv3? No. At the point that your application is used with a LGPLv3 library then it would

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 06 juillet 2010, à 09:26 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:12 +, j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Well, while I guess all my modules are LGPL/GPLv2+ would that still prevent me from linking against LGPLv3 things if I don't convert them to GPLv3? No. At the

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Ryan, On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le mardi 06 juillet 2010, à 09:00 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread jhs
Hi! At the point that your application is used with a LGPLv3 library then it would conceptually be 'upgraded' to GPLv3 at that time (so that the GPLv2 clause preventing linking with LGPLv3 disappears). This doesn't mean that you have to change the licence of existing code -- you just keep

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Holger Berndt
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:00:09 -0400 Ryan Lortie wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On 07/06/2010 03:00 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes. Can't the platform libraries of gnome be considered as a

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Jean Brefort
Le mardi 06 juillet 2010 à 13:49 +, j...@jsschmid.de a écrit : Hi! At the point that your application is used with a LGPLv3 library then it would conceptually be 'upgraded' to GPLv3 at that time (so that the GPLv2 clause preventing linking with LGPLv3 disappears). This doesn't mean

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 06/07/10 15:12, j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps? In short, yes.

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:01:54 +0200 Steve Frécinaux nudr...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/06/2010 03:00 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: hi Vincent, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:26 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Do you feel okay with the idea of allowing proprietary apps to use our platform but not GPLv2 apps?

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 09:34 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: Anybody who has an application that is GPLv2-only and has accepted enough contributions that it has become an unreasonable proposition to relicense has made a

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Ted, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:12 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: IANAL but I'm curious if a standard exception couldn't be drafted for LGPLv3 to allow linking with GPLv2 programs. Perhaps with work, that could be GNOME policy going

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Rob Taylor
On 06/07/10 18:17, Ryan Lortie wrote: hi Ted, On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:12 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: IANAL but I'm curious if a standard exception couldn't be drafted for LGPLv3 to allow linking with GPLv2 programs. Perhaps with work,

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:17 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:12 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: IANAL but I'm curious if a standard exception couldn't be drafted for LGPLv3 to allow linking with GPLv2 programs. Perhaps

Re: (L)GPLv3

2010-07-06 Thread Florian Müllner
El mar, 06-07-2010 a las 12:32 -0500, Ted Gould escribió: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:17 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: It's the GPLv2 in the program code that states you can't link this against anything other than GPLv2 code. Nothing we could add to the library licence (other than