Re: [Richard Stallman] upgrading GNU pspp to GPLv3

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:19:22PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     > We're asking all GNU maintainers to upgrade their package license within
     > the next few months, but since pspp is an FSF-copyrighted package,
     > it would be good to get the change done soon, at least by the end of 
July.  
     
     Looking at PSPP, I see the following regarding its library
     dependencies:
     
             * Copyright on GSL is not owned by the FSF, but it
               appears to all be under a "GPLv2 or later license".

             * libiconv, readline, plotutils are owned by FSF and
               under "GPLv2 or later license".
     
             * libiconv, readline, plotutils are owned by FSF and
               under "LGPLv2 or later license".
     
             * ncurses is owned by FSF and under an MIT-style license
               (!).
     
             * Copyright on libglade is not owned by the FSF, but it
               appears to all be under a "LGPLv2 or later license".
     
     As for the code in lib/, I see the following:
     
             * gsl-extras (written by Jason) is owned by FSF and under
               GPLv3 or later.

I presume you meant GPLv2 or later!  Perhaps the time is right to
recent our GSL dependency; then this directory will be redundant?
     
             * gtksheet (hacked on by John) is owned by FSF and under
               LGPLv2.1 or later.

Well my hacks are FSF owned.  The original bits are owned by others.
I'm hoping to rewrite much of this in the next few weeks, which should
result in leaner faster code.  

I'm not sure if the LGPLv3 is going to be released at the same time as
the GPLv3 or if that makes any difference to us.

J'
     

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