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

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On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Solomon Peachy <pizza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:38:31PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> > OTOH, Gutenprint is GPLv2+, so it could be considered GPLv3 for purposes
>> > of linking to ASL2.0 CUPS..
>>
>> Just make sure that Gutenprint doesn't link to any other 3rd party
>> libs that are GPLv2-only - everything it links to would need to
>> be v2-or-later (or otherwise GPLv3 compatible) to allow the combined
>> work  to be considered GPLv3
>
> Yeah, it's a headache.
>
> The gutenprint CUPS filters in my dev tree dynamically pull in 41 shared
> libraries, mostly as passthroughs.  I'm auditing them now.
>
> Meanwhile, I've raised this concern on the Gutenprint mailing list and
> we'll see how the conversation goes.
>

Is there anyone who could raise concerns to Apple about the license
change? Maybe convince them to dual-license it or something?


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