GPL v3

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Mark Kretschmann 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 saw this e-mail on kde-devel today (and cecked it on the Trolltech 
homepage):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.general/49617

That means we can use either GPL v2, or GPL v2+ Therefore there's no reason 
for us to change anything because we are already using these two licenses.

Cheers, Max
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