[Kst] GSL + kst license clash

[Matthew D Truch]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:20:57AM -0400, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> Right. QT is GPL2 only...
> 
> So basically, GPLV3 will totally screw KDE, or cause nasty forks all over?
> 
> Hmm... is the sky actually falling?

Sky falling, not yet.  But Stallman does like waving his iron fist
around, and nasty forks may happen.  In the case of gsl, which is
developed at a snails pace, a fork isn't necessary; we could just
require (via configure macros) gsl with a version number less than
1.10.  An ugly hack, perhaps, but sufficient (and legal) for kst for the
next little while (where little while could be years).  

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"If you have only seen it once, then you haven't seen it twice."
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Matthew Truch
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
matt at truch.net
http://matt.truch.net/
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