Re: gkrellm license change notificaition

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Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: 
> > > For those who want to know, gkrellm has moved to GPL v3, coming from GPL v2
> > 
> > Are *ANY* of the plugins that use it, even the ones we do not ship, licensed
> > under only GPL2? If so, we really can't push this on earlier releases.
> 
> ... and so it begins ...
> 
> gkrellmms brings in xmms. As long as it's not pulling in any xmms *plugins*,
> this is probably OK. If it is, I don't even want to think about it, because
> that way lies madness.
> 
> gkrellem-gkfreq does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
> distributable.
> 
> gkrellmoon does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
> distributable.
> 
> gkrellsun does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
> distributable.
> 
> gkrellweather does not specify 'or any later version', so is now no longer
> distributable
> 
> At least both the sun and the moon are similarly encumbered.
> 
> So, four separate gkrellm plugins are now no longer distributable until
> a) they change licenses
> b) we remove the new gkrellm

Upon further reading... these four don't specify any version of the license
at all. So they're technically OK, by accident. Gotta love licenses.

Bill

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