Considering relicensing to GPLv3+
Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.apps.epiphany |
|---|---|
| Organization | GNOME |
| Message-ID | <1413665013.32749.8.camel@lumiose-city> |
Hi all, You may have noticed that View Source is broken in Epiphany 3.14, after this functionality was removed from WebKit. For 3.14.2, we have a workaround in place that will open the page's source in your default text editor, but this is pretty crummy. We've been discussing a solution in [1] involving the Rainbow syntax highlighting library. Rainbow uses the Apache 2.0 license, which is incompatible with GPLv2 but is compatible with GPLv3, so to use it we need to upgrade our project license from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+. We don't have to adjust the license on our source files (though that would be the least-confusing approach and that's what the FSF would want us to do) and we don't need permission from anybody, since all the source files are licensed GPLv2+ already, but the overall project license (in the about dialog and COPYING file) would have to change to GPLv3+. Only a few GNOME programs like Terminal and Builder are using GPLv3+, so I wanted to see if there were any objections to this change. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738475 _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
signature.asc
(application/pgp-signature, 473 B)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJUQtD1AAoJEH9xtkJ5NjKYoGkH/0/Is0IEPrAWuKVVj5tgxUx7 vS7HrqdTqdVHxt5EUXn+jPex1Y8qboWmcljcbjsVqBWXUjg4GdihUCSTHxN2zLd3 7HHL6r8tCtElfvau/5XWkAR6lcIu+JfYJ499qTaSa7jeUKTWiFsoCaNFSd9ytDhC RBzVF188gSOicl7DuPFijCqSlRiBdVbLFnji6VWJSPRJ7DO9LHyS4wYlkvRVnmPG xG/Jun2xc4+ZV+Fz9B3qsSI78xF6Ex0uzbKoLeorm3Z2vfutG00usY80Ih9S9Ppw lSdRUSaFR320ICWod8e3dwI8yv1IewOfHDXV3JjVshgLV8B398ZrSLn/+8hQZoE= =RX4M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----