AFAIK you can relicense public domain source under GPL to reduce ambiguity.
Jevon
2011/6/24 Ted Gould <ted@...11...>:
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:53 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Most source files don't have the full GPL copyright notice which specifies the version, they only say "released under GNU GPL". This would suggest that most of the code is GPLv2+. There are also several files dual-licensed under MPL and GPL. Our Launchpad website states that Inkscape is under GPLv2.
There are also some files that claim to be under public domain, and there's some question of whether code can be put into the public domain. I'd say in general, the Inkscape license is ambiguous. :-(
Honestly, the amount of effort to clean that up is pretty large. The SFLC can help us there, and I've talked to them a bit about it, but I'm not sure that the cost/benefit is there. I'm in a bit of a quandary of what direction we should take things in this regard.
--Ted
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