GPL v3

Seb Ruiz me at sebruiz.net
Sun Jul 8 03:46:18 CEST 2007


On 08/07/07, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> now that the GPL3 is released, I was wondering what our position is
> regarding its use in Amarok code. I'd like to hear your opinions on
> some questions that came to my mind:
>
> 1) Is it good or bad to use the GPL3 in new code, or doesn't it really
> matter at all for Amarok? Should we encourage using it?
>
> 2) Some of our code is GPL v2+ licensed, "either version 2 of the
> License, or (at your option) any later version." Does this mean that
> this code is now automatically upgraded to v3?
>
> 3) Do you foresee any possible side effects of using v3 in Amarok? ("ITSATRAP!")
>
> 4) Does it make sense to mix v2 and v3 in the same project?
>

I have no real understanding of GPL v3, because I haven't payed any
attention to it, so I don't have a viewpoint.

Seb


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