On 29/01/17 13:18, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Andy Simpkins wrote: > >> It is our belief that this is sufficient; that the package FontForge, >> and type 1 fonts generated by this package are now DFSG compliant >> because Apache 2.0 is GPL2+ compatible. > The FSF believes that Apache 2.0 is only compatible with GPLv3+ not GPLv2. > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2 > https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > Well Paul you are entirely correct. Would you believe that pretty much everyone here missed that one - despite the fact that nearly every person did proof this :-) OK so what does that mean? GPL2 stuff could be problematic but ultimately the suggested action(s) would still appear valid... Karen your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.... /Andy
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