Re: Request for goffice relicensing

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

State of the licenses for the files listed at the end is:

Possibly problematic files:

goffice/app/go-cmd-context-impl.h: no license
goffice/gtk/go-colorgroup.c: Michael Levy, Almer S. Tigelaar, Jody
Goldberg
goffice/gtk/go-colorgroup.h: Michael Levy, Almer S. Tigelaar
goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.c: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.h: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.c: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.h: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.c: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.h: Ximian, Inc.
goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.h: no copyright.
goffice/utils/go-file.c: Morten Welinder, Yukihiro Nakai, Red Hat, Inc.
goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.c: no copyright, just authors and no
license.
goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.h: no license.

Already gplv2+:
goffice/utils/go-color.h

Other files are copyrighted by either Jody, Morten or Emmanuel.


Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:54 +0100, Jean Bréfort a écrit :
> Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:34 +0100, J.M. Maurer a écrit :
> > Hi there gnumeric hackers!
> >
> > As some of you might have read (http://uwog.net/news/?p=99), we have a
> > bit of a licensing problem with AbiWord.
> >
> > The short version is that goffice's license (GPLv2), doesn't play nice
> > with one of AbiWord's dependencies, which is LGPLv3+ licensed.
> >
> > After discussing this on our mailing list, our preferred solution seems
> > to be a relicensing of goffice, from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
> >
> > Would this be an option that all copyright holders of gofffice could
> > live with? If so, we'd created appreciate it.
> >
> > If there is anything I can do to help, please contact me. I don't want
> > to burden you all with boring work :)
> >
> > Cheers!
> >   Marc
>
> Files imported in abiword, and needing the relicensing in priority are
> the following (all from the 0.4 branch):
>
> goffice/goffice.h
> goffice/goffice.c
> goffice/goffice-priv.h
> goffice/app/go-cmd-context.c
> goffice/app/go-cmd-context.h
> goffice/app/go-cmd-context-impl.h
> goffice/app/goffice-app.h
> goffice/gtk/go-color-group.c
> goffice/gtk/go-color-selector.c
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.c
> goffice/gtk/go-palette.c
> goffice/gtk/go-color-group.h
> goffice/gtk/go-color-selector.h
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-color.h
> goffice/gtk/go-palette.h
> goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.c
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.c
> goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.c
> goffice/gtk/go-color-palette.h
> goffice/gtk/go-combo-box.h
> goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.h
> goffice/utils/go-color.c
> goffice/utils/go-file.c
> goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.h
> goffice/utils/go-marshalers.c
> goffice/utils/go-color.h
> goffice/utils/go-file.h
> goffice/utils/go-image.c
> goffice/utils/go-marshalers.h
> goffice/utils/goffice-utils.h
> goffice/utils/go-glib-extras.c
> goffice/utils/go-image.h
>
> As far as I'm concern, I fully agree with the relicensing.
>
> Cheers,
> Jean