Re: GPL version

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:01:10 -0500
"Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:

Hm, I understand. This was partly out of curiosity, partly because I
was interested in how it would work with a Zotero plugin; Zotero is
under the Educational Community License
(http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses#ECL2.0), which is GPL3
compatible.
I am no license expert, but can not see that it would be a problem to
distribute and use an ECL-licensed plugin by another party, as long as
it wasn't included in the Abiword package?

Yours,
Morten

> Unfortunately, that's impractical. There was no central copyright
> assignment and AbiWord has too many contributors, many of which we
> know to no longer be reachable. The chances of contacting everyone and
> also getting them agree to a license change is ~0.
>
> Best,
> Dom
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
> <morten@technographer.net> wrote:
> >
> > License question:
> > Abiword is currently being distributed under GPL2. Has it been
> > considered to use v3 or GPL2 or later?
> >
> > Yours,
> > Morten
> > __
> > Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
> > http://technographer.net * morten_at_technographer.net

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Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://technographer.net * morten_at_technographer.net
Received on Fri Dec 19 14:17:31 2008