gEDA-dev: careful with licensing issues

Ales Hvezda ahvezda at moria.seul.org
Wed May 14 08:14:28 EDT 2008


Hi Stuart,

[snip]
>As long as we're discussing licensing stuff, I was wondering:  Are you
>interested in moving gEDA from GPL v2 to GPL v3?  Or do you prefer to
>stay at v2?
>

Eventually we are going to have to move to v3.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

See the table and observe that we are going to have to upgarde if
we start using gplv3 libraries.  Footnote 3 is most interesting.

-Ales



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