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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: ofono@ofono.org
Subject: License question: Why GPLv2 only?
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:50:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxfaak7w.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (raw)

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Hi!

Interesting project.  I read some of the source code you have published,
and some files are licensed under the GPLv2 or later:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/ofono/ofono.git;a=blob;f=gdbus/mainloop.c;hb=HEAD

However, many files are licensed under the GPLv2 only, with no option of
using later license versions, for example:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/ofono/ofono.git;a=blob;f=gatchat/gatchat.c;hb=HEAD
http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/ofono/ofono.git;a=blob;f=src/dbus-gsm.c;hb=HEAD

Has it been a conscious decision to use GPLv2-only for some files?

Are you aware that using GPLv2-only makes your work license incompatible
with (L)GPLv3 work?  If I understand correctly, you cannot combine any
of your GPLv2-only work with code licensed under the LGPLv3 or GPLv3.
The GPLv2-only license is not compatible with the (L)GPLv3 license, see:

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

I would humbly request that you use GPLv2-or-later for code instead, to
allow you, and everyone else, to combine your work with (L)GPLv3 code.

Thanks,
/Simon

             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12  6:50 Simon Josefsson [this message]
2009-05-12  6:58 ` License question: Why GPLv2 only? Marcel Holtmann
2009-05-12  7:21   ` Simon Josefsson
2009-05-12  7:29     ` Marcel Holtmann

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