License issue with optional TLS component (bug 693272)

Petr Kovar <pknbe-VIXq6x/[email protected]> Sat, 9 Feb 2013 23:36:24 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel
Organization	NBE
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi all,

I was wondering what is others' take on Pan bug 693272?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693272

It indeed looks like we can't feature linking to a LGPLv3 library
(gnutls2/3) due to the license incompatibility, which is very unfortunate.

Getting permission from all code contributors to relicense the code to
"GPLv2 or later" doesn't seem to be very realistic either.

Cheers,
Petr Kovar