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

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:23:33PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I'm of a mind to urge that cups be considered a system library (as it's 
> > upstream also argues)
> 
> Possibly this is something we could formally define with Modularity.
> (That is, all libraries in Platform & Host are "system libraries")?

Leaving aside "applications" for now -- What about the case where one of 
those "system libraries" (say, GTK+) directly depends on another "system 
library" (say, libcups) which now sports an incompatible license?

Because that's the problem we're actually facing here...

 - Solomon
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