Re: GOffice licensing problem

How long do we anticipate the relicensing to take? I am wary of turning
distributions off from using the latest AbiWord, due to the
aforementioned version issues with GTKMathView - while I'm not sure what
all uses this besides us and those who use it directly, needing an old
version of one thing for a new version of another might send the wrong
message to downstream.

Ryan

J.M. Maurer wrote:
> Would it really be a problem if we released 2.6.0 as it is? Ofcourse
> we'll continue to push to get goffice relicensed, but until then, I
> don't see the need to wait really.
>
> Our release notes can clearly state that we are _not_ compatible with
> GPLv3 yet. We can ship 2.6.1 the day we get this issue resolved.
>
> Input?
> Marc
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 22:32 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>
>> Hi there ants,
>>
>> There is one more issue holding up 2.6.0: the inclusion of goffice code
>> in our tree. This makes us as a whole GPLv2 only, since goffice code is
>> GPLv2 (not GPLv2+).
>>
>> This means we can't include our math plugin anymore in combination with
>> the lastest GtkMathView release for example, since that is GPLv3.
>>
>> As I see it, we have 4 options:
>>
>> 1) There is no problem, just accept that we can not use GLPv3 code. If
>> that means no more equations, so be it.
>> 2) Have (parts of) goffice relicensed to GPLv2+ (which Jody thinks might
>> be doable). I saw Red Hat as copyright owner for parts, so this might
>> take more time than we'd like.
>> 3) Ditch the goffice bits, and just add a dynamic dependency on
>> libgoffice (this will also make the goffice plugin we ship work properly
>> again iirc). I think this will be a unix only dep.
>> 4) As far as I can see (just had a quick look, please correct me), we
>> only include goffice code for a single color picker widget. We can ditch
>> that, and just use the stock (and uglier) gtk color picker.
>>
>> Input?
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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