gkrellm license change notificaition
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 23 14:46:13 UTC 2007
Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said:
> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:
> > For those who want to know, gkrellm has moved to GPL v3, coming from GPL v2
>
> Are *ANY* of the plugins that use it, even the ones we do not ship, licensed
> under only GPL2? If so, we really can't push this on earlier releases.
... and so it begins ...
gkrellmms brings in xmms. As long as it's not pulling in any xmms *plugins*,
this is probably OK. If it is, I don't even want to think about it, because
that way lies madness.
gkrellem-gkfreq does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
distributable.
gkrellmoon does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
distributable.
gkrellsun does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
distributable.
gkrellweather does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
distributable
At least both the sun and the moon are similarly encumbered.
So, four separate gkrellm plugins are now no longer distributable until
a) they change licenses
b) we remove the new gkrellm
Are we *sure* we want to ship a new gkrellm with the new license?
Bill
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