On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:51:22AM -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
The gutenprint CUPS filters in my dev tree dynamically pull in 41
shared
libraries, mostly as passthroughs. I'm auditing them now.
FWIW, everything that gutenprint links against, and everything they pull
in, appears to be compatible with the notion "treat Gutenprint as
GPLv3+" for purposes of linking against libcups.
...Assuming the Fedora 26 rpm database's license tags are accurate. :)
(I can't speak for things that link against gutenprint itself)
Meanwhile, I've raised this concern on the Gutenprint mailing
list and
we'll see how the conversation goes.
So far, the concensus is that this doesn't appear to matter today
(thanks to the ability to implicitly promote the GPLv2+ to v3) but it
interferes with future plans. It's still being discussed.
- Solomon
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