Re: CUPS will change license since 2.3 version - now incompatible with GPLv2

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On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> CUPS upstream changed license of project to Apache license 2.0, which is
> now incompatible with GPLv2. This change will be in new minor release of
> CUPS - 2.3.0, which is currently in developing phase (not in Fedora for
> now). If someone takes code of CUPS and has its project under GPLv2,
> please change it to GPLv3 (which should be compatible according
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses
> ) or try to argument with CUPS developers against this change on their
> mailing list cups@xxxxxxxx .
>
> Is there someone who is influenced by this change?

Therefore it should not affect dynamic-linking situations against
libcups, right?

>
> --
> Zdenek Dohnal
> Associate Software Engineer
> Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
>
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