Relicensing of GCompris executable to AGPLv3 licence

[Bruno Friedmann]

On samedi, 30 janvier 2021 20.36:44 h CET Johnny Jazeix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We realised that, for analog electricity, we added in our source the
> engine from edx:
> https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/j
> s/src/capa/schematic.js which is licenced under AGPLv3 licence.
> Our base code is under GPLv3+ which is compatible with AGPLv3 but it
> causes the built program to be released under AGPLv3.
> 
> From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.en.html:
> "The ordinary GNU GPL and the GNU AGPL are two different copyleft
> licenses, so they are naturally incompatible. We have set up a special
> kind of explicit compatibility between them: you can include source
> code under the GNU GPL version 3 together with other source code under
> the GNU Affero GPL in a single combined program. This is permitted
> because both of those licenses explicitly say so, and the effect is
> that the GNU AGPL applies to the combined program. However, you can't
> simply relicense code from the GNU GPL (with or without “or later”) to
> the GNU Affero GPL, or vice versa; neither of these licenses gives
> permission for that."
> 
> It does not affect much us because the added condition on the AGPL
> licence is for remote network interaction (point 13 of
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html) which is not a use-case
> for GCompris.
> 
> I have updated the source code to reflect that.
> 
> Johnny

I would like to thanks you (the bunch of upstream people) a lot to have tackle 
this issue.

I will now adapt openSUSE package and push the latest version with patch (or 
we will get a small fix release soon?).


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