On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:10 -0500, saulgoode@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The licensing specified in the files app/gui/ige-mac-menu.[ch] appears > to be LGPL2.1 with no "or later" clause. LGPLv2.1 permits, without any > further authorization, changing the code's license to later GPL > versions (but apparently not subsequent LGPL versions); so the > copyright holder's permission isn't strictly necessary to relicense > the code as GPL3, but it would seem appropriate and courteous to check > if they wouldn't rather add the "or later" option to their LGPLv2.1 > code (obviating the need to re-license as GPL3). The copyright holder > of those files is Imendio; perhaps Andreas Nilsson could address this > (otherwise it should be possible to make contact with the copyright > holders through their developer forums @ > http://developer.imendio.com/forum). I'm co-author of this file and the other author is Richard Hult. I'm sure he is fine with having the files in a GPLv3 project, but I will ask him anyway. ciao, --mitch _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
