Fwd: GOffice licensing problem

So, for the time being (while the thing is being sorted out), can't
there be two differently licensed builds, one with math plugin and one
without it? Or another year will pass to see the light of a new
AbiWord release?

lp, m.

On 26/11/2007, Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort@normalesup.org> wrote:
>
>
> Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 22:32 +0100, J.M. Maurer a écrit :
> > Hi there ants,
> >
> > There is one more issue holding up 2.6.0: the inclusion of goffice code
> > in our tree. This makes us as a whole GPLv2 only, since goffice code is
> > GPLv2 (not GPLv2+).
> >
> > This means we can't include our math plugin anymore in combination with
> > the lastest GtkMathView release for example, since that is GPLv3.
> >
> > As I see it, we have 4 options:
> >
> > 1) There is no problem, just accept that we can not use GLPv3 code. If
> > that means no more equations, so be it.
>
> Not an option.
>
> > 2) Have (parts of) goffice relicensed to GPLv2+ (which Jody thinks might
> > be doable). I saw Red Hat as copyright owner for parts, so this might
> > take more time than we'd like.
>
> The only solution, imho.
>
> > 3) Ditch the goffice bits, and just add a dynamic dependency on
> > libgoffice (this will also make the goffice plugin we ship work properly
> > again iirc). I think this will be a unix only dep.
>
> Not really an option because of src/af/util/xp/ut_go_file.cpp which is a
> rework of goffice/utils/go-file.c and GPLv2 only.
>
> > 4) As far as I can see (just had a quick look, please correct me), we
> > only include goffice code for a single color picker widget. We can ditch
> > that, and just use the stock (and uglier) gtk color picker.
>
> See previous comment.
>
> Cheers,
> Jean
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 26 10:12:19 2007