[Savannah-hackers] Re: License compatibility

[Cheyenne]

Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:

> Vincent Caron <address@hidden> a tapoté :
>
>> Cheyenne wrote:
>>> I'm  a  little  confused  about  some  licensing  issues.   My
>>> project,
>>> swtscore, has  been accepted on  savannah. This project,  released under
>>> GPL, uses  SWT, released under CPL,  as GUI library. But  I've just seen
>>> that            CPL            is            GPL            incompatible
>>> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html).
>>>
>>> Does that mean  that I will have  to change the license of  my program ?
>>
>> CPL is a free license, that's why it was accepted on Savannah. However
>> it is true that you cannot combine CPL 1.0 and GPL v2. It looks like
>> this issue is more or less debated, maybe you could send some
>> encouragements to the Eclipse and SWT people to update their licensing
>> scheme to something GPL compatible, it would benefit everybody.

I could also send encouragements to the FSF to modify the GPL ;)

Talking  about that,  will the  GPL  v3 clarify  things concerning  this
issues ? 

>>
>>  From here, you can either choose another toolkit (like GTK+), or
>> relicense your project (CPL or BSD comes to mind). You'll have to
>> contact us again to change the displayed licensed on your project page
>> when you have made up your mind.
>
> Note that the CPL, as it is incompatible with the GPL, will not be
> accepted. 

Anyway I would prefer a copyleft licence. Would the LGPL be suitable ? I
find no references about compatibility between LGPL and other licences,
only GPL


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