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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gnudatalanguage

move to "GPL v2 or later" or "GPL v3"?

Open slayoo opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

we have at least one license incompatibility as of now: GLPK which is under GPL v3

slayoo avatar Mar 28 '22 01:03 slayoo

@gnudatalanguage/gdlpackagers IUUC, it appears we have at least one unnoticed license incompatibility - with GLPK which is GPL v3, while GDL is GPL v2. Any opinions on which is best suited for GDL: "GPL v2 or later" or "GPL v2"? Also, any hints on best practices for changing the license?

slayoo avatar Mar 28 '22 14:03 slayoo

BTW, this concerns GDL, GDLDE as well as gdl_kernel (which up till how had no license specified, see https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl_kernel/issues/12)

slayoo avatar Mar 28 '22 17:03 slayoo

Apologies, false alarm. In fact it seems that the source file headers in GDL do mention "(at your option) any later version"

slayoo avatar Mar 29 '22 22:03 slayoo

BTW I think if no objections, I think it is better to bump up to GPL v3. GPL v2 was released in 1991 - and it's 2022!

pjb7687 avatar Mar 30 '22 01:03 pjb7687