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

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Thanks Louis!


On 02/21/2018 11:15 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 10:42 +0100, Zdenek Dohnal 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#SoftwareLi
>> censes
>> ) 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?
> My apologies fr the late response: I have been pretty busy.
> cups-bjnp was affected as it was GPLv2 only. In versiob 2.0.1 It is now
> changed to be GPLv2 or later. The new package has been built for
> Rawhide and f28.
>
> /Louis 
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Zdenek Dohnal
Associate Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C


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