Re: Licensing dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Graham Percival wrote: > What does this mean? I mean, *any* project would be a problem if > they changed to a non-GPLv2-compatible license. Are they > considering/planning such a change? Not that I know of. The point is just that most Lilypond dependencies are either called rather than linked t

Re: Licensing dependencies

2009-09-22 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:46:32PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > and potentially Pango (if it > upgrades to LGPLv3+). What does this mean? I mean, *any* project would be a problem if they changed to a non-GPLv2-compatible license. Are they considering/planning such a change? Cheers, - Graham

Re: Licensing dependencies

2009-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 20. September 2009 13:46:32 schrieb Joseph Wakeling: >> It looks like the problems are FreeType (GPLv2 only or GPL-incompatible >> permissive license, so blocks upgrade); > > The FTL is GPLv2-incompatible, but according to the FSF, it's GPLv3- > compatible.

Re: Licensing dependencies

2009-09-20 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 20. September 2009 13:46:32 schrieb Joseph Wakeling: > It looks like the problems are FreeType (GPLv2 only or GPL-incompatible > permissive license, so blocks upgrade); The FTL is GPLv2-incompatible, but according to the FSF, it's GPLv3-

Licensing dependencies

2009-09-20 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Have had a look through the licenses of dependencies as listed in the Contributor's Guide. It looks like the problems are FreeType (GPLv2 only or GPL-incompatible permissive license, so blocks upgrade); Guile (future versions will be LGPLv3+, so GPLv2-only-incompatible); and potentially Pango (if