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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 41118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41118] [PATCH] gnu: inkscape: Update to 1.0.
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 10:43:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515144324.GA18054@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9kxb9rm.fsf@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 09:36:13AM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> This was made here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/784.
> If you have a good grasp of the GPL v2 vs GPL v3 merits, perhaps it'd be
> useful to them to to post that there.  IIRC, I think the big new things
> in GPL v3 were immunization to patent attacks (nice to have for
> Inkscape) as well as preventing tivoization (this is not so applicable),
> and clarifying that linking with GPL code means the whole should be GPL.
> I'll re-read the licenses text in detail when I have a chance.
> 
> Anyway, if this doesn't move quickly enough, we could reluctantly build
> Inkscape with its bundled lib2geom, which is a subset of the full
> lib2geom and which doesn't link with GSL (IIRC).

In <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/784#note_343293612>
they seem to demonstrate a misunderstanding about lib2geom's license.
That commenter thinks that lib2geom is GPL2+, when it's actually
LGPL-2.1 or MPL-1.1.

However, gnu.org says that LGPL-2.1 is compatible with GPL2 and GPL3. So
maybe it's fine; I don't know. I think we should ask FSF for advice
<https://www.fsf.org/licensing>.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07  3:23 [bug#41118] [PATCH] gnu: inkscape: Update to 1.0 Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-07  4:37 ` [bug#41118] [PATCH V2] " Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-07 15:20 ` [bug#41118] [PATCH] " Leo Famulari
2020-05-15 13:36   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-15 14:43     ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-05-16  3:53       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-16 11:05         ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-16 18:59           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-07 15:27 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-07 15:30   ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-28  3:34     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-28 13:39       ` Leo Famulari
2020-06-01  3:14         ` bug#41118: " Maxim Cournoyer

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