On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Felipe Borges <feborges(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Zdenek Dohnal
<zdohnal(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CUPS upstream changed license of project to Apache license 2.0, which is
> now incompatible with GPLv2. This change will be in new minor release of
> CUPS - 2.3.0, which is currently in developing phase (not in Fedora for
> now). If someone takes code of CUPS and has its project under GPLv2,
> please change it to GPLv3 (which should be compatible according
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses
> ) or try to argument with CUPS developers against this change on their
> mailing list cups(a)cups.org .
>
> Is there someone who is influenced by this change?
Therefore it should not affect dynamic-linking situations against
libcups, right?
It will. Previously, it was licensed under GPLv2 + LGPLv2 with Apple
exceptions. Now it is ASL 2.0 across the board. GPLv2 projects can not
link to the newer version.
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