Le mardi, 28 janvier 2014, 16.07:34 Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : > On Sun 2013-12-22 14:12:40 -0500, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > #3 Hope that GMP is relicensed to GPL2+/LGPLv3+ > > On Tue 2014-01-14 04:53:51 -0500, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > 2) GnuTLS > > > > 2.x is useable but deprecated, 3.x is GPLv3+ through GMP. We're > > back to "talk to the FSF to license GMP back to LGPLv2+" > > I think OdyX is asking for more from GMP than is necessary; note that > Andreas earlier pointed out that GMP just needs to be GPL2+/LGPLv3+.
Ah yeah, good point. I was merely asking for a revert of the change that broke the GPLv2-only uses. I had overlooked that "GPLv2+/LGPLv3+" would also be okay; thanks for having pointed that out. > This is exactly what libgmp (in particular, Torbjorn Granlund > <t...@gmplib.org>) appears to have decided to do as of yesterday: > > Changelog: > https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/02634effbd4e > Huge diff with licensing changes: > https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/rev/da670a8513db > > So i believe this makes the GPLv2-only CUPS re-distributable again > when linked to modern versions of GnuTLS. That's quite awesome news! Let's see if that makes it to a public release (which I don't doubt) and we'll have a clean way forward after GnuTLS 2.x ! Cheers, OdyX
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