On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:17:29AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 23:08 -0800, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
We actually have two bits of GPL v3 only code imported from Gimp: the expression evaluator and the spin-scale widget. Thus the current version of Inkscape technically violates the GPL, and the upcoming versions should be distributed as GPL v3+. As the next step, we should either ask the authors of those two files to release them under GPL v2+ or reimplement them.
Is the GPLv3+ a problem for us for releases?
Should we have a think if we want to transition to GPLv3 at this point?
Josh, Jon, and I pondered on this a bit back when RMS raised the issue. IIRC the major practical reason for favoring GPLv3+ would be if we wanted to pull in code that was licensed as GPLv3+, but we didn't identify anything super compelling.
Most of our other peer projects are GPLv2+, so we maximize ability to share our code to them by adopting that. I seem to recall there were a couple other reasons favoring GPLv2+ beyond that but I'm not remembering what they were.
Bryce