Re: License compatibility with GPLv3
Hi Miriam,
On 2008-01-24 13:49 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> I have some small problem with Gnash that might be extensible to other
> packages, so I'm asking here to find out if anyone else has had that
> problem too and how did they manage it.
>
> Gnash is GNU's free Flash player. It is now licensed under GPLv3 (it
> was previously GPLv2 or above). It has a really huge list of build
> dependencies:
>
> dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), debhelper (>= 4.0.0), quilt, autoconf, dh-buildinfo,
> automake1.9 | automake, libtool, libltdl3-dev, help2man, libxmu-dev, dejagnu,
> autotools-dev, libboost-dev, libboost-thread-dev, libxml2-dev, libjpeg-dev,
> libpng12-dev | libpng-dev, libagg-dev, libgstreamer0.10-dev, libkonq4-dev,
> libpango1.0-dev | pango-devel, libgtkglext1-dev, libmad0-dev, libdirectfb-dev,
> libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev | libcurl4-openssl-dev |
> libcurl3-openssl-dev,
> libcaca-dev, libboost-date-time-dev, libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev,
> libming-dev,
> libming-util, mtasc, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev,
> libboost-serialization-dev, python, base-files (>= 4.0.1)
>
> All these dependencies already have their own list of dependencies
> too, right now I'm concerned about libkonq4-dev and Qt being GPLv2
> only. Even though all of these packages might be GPLv3 compatible, it
> is not guaranteed that their dependencies are, like:
>
> Package A (GPLv3) depends on package B (GPLv2 or above)
> Package B (GPLv2 or above) depends on package C (GPLv2 only)
>
> Both dependencies would be OK on their own, but I'd be effectively
> linking A (GPLv3) with C (GPLv2 only) which are not compatible.
You will be interested that Trolltech has released Qt 3.3.8 under GPL 3:
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-18.5377846280/pressrelease_view
Cheers,
Sven
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