Re: Moving to GPLv3

[Fred Kiefer]

Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> All, 
> 
> I am going to start reviewing those parts of GNUstep that I am a direct 
> contributor to for movement to the GPLv3 or LGPLv3 where appropriate, namely 
> gnustep-gui and Gorm.   Fred, please help me look at gui for any issues 
> regarding this move.  I believe for those packages it will be simple.
> 
> I would like all of the maintainers for other parts of GNUstep to do the same 
> and report back if there are any issues with moving to the new license.
> 
> I expect that the transition will be smooth.
> 

Status of back
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Tools
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font_cacher LGPL2 and includes directly a file with LGPL2

gpbs GPL2, includes a file with LGPL 2 which could be removed without
loosing functionality

Source
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Mostly our own LGPL 2 code with copyright by the FSF.

In x11 we link with xdnd.c which has LGPL2 or later but copyright:
"Copyright (C) 1998  Paul Sheer".
The files from wraster also have LGPL2 or later and copyright:
"Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Alfredo K. Kojima".

For the old xdps backend we have one file with
"(c) Copyright 1991-1994 Adobe Systems Incorporated".



Status of gui
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Tools
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All GPL2 or later and copyright by FSF.

ColorPickers
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All GPL2 but should maybe be LGPL2. Depending on how we view bundles.

Model
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nib2gmodel is LGPL2 or later. Perhaps this should be GPL2.
The rest is also LGPL2 or later.

Source
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NSBezierPath contains a bit of code based on code with LGPL2 or later
from Libart_LGPL - library of basic graphic primitives
Copyright (C) 1998 Raph Levien.


The rest still needs to be checked.


My suggestion would be to put everything in gui and back into LPGL even
tools and bundles. This will make the reuse of code a lot easier.

Cheers
Fred