Hello Jan,

I personally am not aware of any licensing issues that we have in Inkscape, thanks for bringing this to our attention! Do you have a report that has more detail of which files/directories are which license so we can look into it with more detail?

Thanks,
Ted

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 12:43 +0000, Kanefeyer, Jan wrote:

Hello Inkscape board,

 

We are planning to use inkscape. Thus we scanned the source code of inkscape 0.48.4 for OSS licenses. So we found out that inscape 0.48.4 includes the following licenses:

 

GPL 2.0

GPL 3.0

LGPL 2.1

MPL 1.1

Apache License 2.0

creativecommons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

BSD-2-Clause

BSD-3-Clause

MIT

Zlib

W3C

 

Unfortunately there are license incompatibilities between some on the licenses. E.g.:

Apache 2.0       <->      GPL 2.0

GPL 2.0          <->      GPL 3.0

MPL 1.1  <->      GPL 2.0 + GPL 3.0 + LGPL 2.1 + Apache License 2.0

 

This leads to a serious problem: The creator of the code published under Apache License 2.0 can prohibit a publishing of his code under GPL 2.0. So we are not allowed to publish it at all.

 

So here are my questions:

Is the community aware of this problem?

Is there a general statement regarding this topic available?

Are there any counter measures planned/implemented?

 

Kind Regards

Jan Kanefeyer

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Jan Kanefeyer

 

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