Hi, I just finished with the Fedora 17 feature page for GIMP 2.8[1] and built gimp-2.7.4 into Rawhide. GIMP changed its licensing to GPLv3+ (app, included plugins) and LGPLv3+ (libraries) from the 2.7 development versions on. I've checked dependent packages and found that all are listed with compatible licenses in their spec files (CeCill v2, GPLv2+, GPLv3+, Public Domain). One minor licensing issues was introduced with this change, namely with poppler, used for importing PDFs and GPLv2 only. For the moment, GIMP packages from 2.7.x on won't use poppler, but the PostScript plugin for importing PDFs. This is a workaround until the next stable version poppler 0.20 which will be based off xpdf-3.03 (or later), thusly GPLv2/GPLv3 dual-licensed and compatible again. While APIs used by external plugins should be backwards-compatible, I'll rebuild packages using GIMP libraries (i.e. having GIMP plugins) against the current (not yet stable) version 2.7.4 and against the stable version when it's there, just to be on the safe side. These are the affected (source) packages: GREYCstoration: deebs gimp-fourier-plugin: fabiand gimp-lqr-plugin: slankes gimp-resynthesizer: ewan gimpfx-foundry: rvinyard gutenprint: twaugh - jpopelka mathmap: rnorwood ufraw: nphilipp xsane: nphilipp I plan to do the first round of rebuilds tomorrow, so if there's any reason why I shouldn't rebuild one of these, or you want to rebuild a package by yourself, speak up ;-). Nils [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GIMP_2.8 -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
