Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Thu, 18 May 2017 18:54:57 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.release-team,gmane.comp.gnome.nautilus,gmane.comp.gnome.desktop
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017-05-18 18:22 GMT+02:00 Carlos Soriano via desktop-devel-list
<[email protected]>:

> The only problem that arises if Nautilus becomes GPL3+ as per yesteday
> discussion in IRC at #gnome-hackers is that extensions that are GPL2-only
> cannot be used anymore.
> Keep in mind GPL2+ are fine.
>
> Said this, I took a look at extensions which are not retired from distros
> and that have seen a release in at least the last 3 years. So far they are:
> nautilus-dropbox - GPL3+
> nautilus-image-converter - GPL2+
> nautilus-pastebin - GPL2+
> nautilus-python - GPL2+
> nautilus-search-tool - GPL2+
> nautilus-sendto - GPL2+
> nautilus-terminal - GPL2+

I found the tortoise-hg plugin in the Debian archive, which seems to
be GPL2 only
https://sources.debian.net/src/tortoisehg/4.0-1/contrib/nautilus-thg.py/


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