On 25 Jul 2012, at 12:52, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:
2012/7/24 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) <gespertino@...400...> wrote:
Afaik there was also an issue with pixman/cairo bitmap downsampling that could be potentially a release-blocking regression. Did the board decide something regarding that problem?
Yes, that is still an issue as far as I am aware. However, that's a much more easily solvable problem to fix. It's also not the board's realm to deal with normal problems that the developer community can more easily straighten out. Honestly, we probably have a few other current blockers bugs as well.
In the end though, the licensing situation is really a much bigger and more complicated problem that will probably require getting legal counsel involved.
Most files are annotated as 'released under GNU GPL' and point to the COPYING file for license information, without specifying the license version. Is it safe to assume this means 'GPL v2 or later'? I guess it would be up to the legal counsel to find this out.
The feature of calculations in spinboxes uses GPL v3 code from GIMP. This can only stay in the next release if we really are GPL v2 or later, and needs to be behind a compile-time switch, because some people might want to use Inkscape under GPL v2.
Regards, Krzysztof
Unless we can get permission for that code to be released on a v2 license? May be easier than trying to get the rest of the code base v3...