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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-packaging] is ghostscript able to be updated to 8.70 was GPL v3 question
- From: Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:30:00 +0100
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Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not only GPLv2 is incompatible with any other licenses, GPLv3 is also
incompatible even with GPLv2. I expect a lot of trouble for distributors
in the near future because of this fact....
Jörg
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the legal department. Looking at the chart GPLv2 only isn't 100%
compatible with any other license. Foomatic-filters cannot exist without
libgs so if there is a problem they need to address it.
Not only GPLv2 is incompatible with any other licenses, GPLv3 is also
incompatible even with GPLv2. I expect a lot of trouble for distributors
in the near future because of this fact....
Jörg
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