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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