Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

2014-04-17 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:02:31PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > To move things forward, the best is probably to create a GNOME goal: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals > > Can you help me do this, Sebastian? I wanted to create a new Gnome goal candidate, but in this page:

Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

2014-04-16 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Some libraries such as GLib and GTK+ are licensed under the LGPLv2-or-later,

Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

2014-04-13 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > RMS wrote at 12:58 (EDT) on Monday: > >>> For many libraries, using LGPLv2.1 may be best, to allow use in > >>> GPLv2-covered programs. > > I have to disagree with RMS on this point. As I proposed on > desktop-devel a long time ag