On 18 September 2015 at 21:43, Dan Winship <d...@gnome.org> wrote: > It was initially written at a time when Ximian was explicitly using the > "v2 only" license on evolution (because reasons), so it's possible that > libsoup was intended to be v2 only, since it was more-or-less part of > evolution. But then, Novell relicensed evolution to v2+ later on, so > presumably, if libsoup actually was v2-only at that point (which it may not > have been), then surely Novell *intended* to also make libsoup v2+, despite > not having said so. So... "maybe it used to be v2+" + "probably it was > intended to have been changed to v2+ later if it wasn't already" + > "certainly everything written since 2007 was intended to be v2+" == > "probably definitely it's v2+ now" ? That's totally how the law works, > right? >
Thanks for the reply Dan, and yes that's totally how the law works. Maybe you should clarify this somewhere, or do you prefer the ambiguity? Sander, a patch to make libsoup LGPLv2+ would be accepted by me on this basis. Ross
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