From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 41118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41118] [PATCH] gnu: inkscape: Update to 1.0.
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 13:05:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eerkta0t.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftc0bknf.fsf@gmail.com>
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Leo,
>
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> 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).
>
> Actually, this doesn't help with the licensing incompatibility, given
> that Inkscape already depends on the GPL v3+ GNU Scientific Library
> (GSL) and that the bundled lib2geom sources within Inkscape make use of
> GSL. I've pointed that here:
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/784#note_343667232.
What exactly is the license incompatibility? As Leo points out,
LGPL2.1+ is compatible with GPL3. Your initial assessment that the
entire works become GPL3+ seems correct to me.
GNU has a handy chart that shows compatibility between the various GNU
licenses: <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility>.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 11:06 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
2020-05-16 3:53 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-16 11:05 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
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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