Re: GOffice licensing problem

On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:19 -0600, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> 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.

My wild guess: quite a few weeks, maybe even months before this is dealt
with.

Marc

> 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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Received on Sun Dec 2 23:25:23 2007