refactoring in pageview class

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Feb 14 00:10:49 UTC 2017


El dimarts, 14 de febrer de 2017, a les 11:04:11 CET, Jonathan Schultz va 
escriure:
> >> My personal interest stems from having forked okular for my own project
> >> (https://github.com/jschultz/okular-tagging),
> > 
> > You've relicensed all of the code to GPL-3 ?
> 
> Not really thought about it, just used GPL-3 as a default licence.
> 
> > Not sure that's illegal but for sure makes cherry-picking changes to the
> > real Okular much harder.
> 
> Oh, that certainly isn't my intention. Trying to make sense of GPL's
> FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Am I correct that Okular
> is licensed under GPLv2 /only/? If that's the case then perhaps I am not
> allowed to use GPLv3 for my fork, and should change to GPLv2 or "GPLv2
> or later".

AFAIR most of the code is GPLv2+ and parts of it are LGPLv2+ so probably your 
relicense to GPL3 is "legal" but just makes it "impossible" to get any of your 
changes to Okular without you agreeing for a relicense.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers, Jonathan




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