[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Fwd: Licensing of the javascript libraries

[Daniel Narvaez]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
Date: 10 May 2013 16:34
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Licensing of the javascript libraries
To: Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
Cc: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>, Tony Sebro <
tony at sfconservancy.org>


Daniel Narvaez wrote at 13:08 (EDT) on Thursday:
> My main worry with GPLv2 is the incompatibility with Apache. We need
> to be able to include javascript libraries licensed under Apache
> inside our application bundles. Do you know if that's going to be
> problematic?

That incompatibility is a known problem.  If having GPLv2 (rather than
GPLv3) is important to you, one option is to use GPLv2-or-later on all
your code.  The combination with Apache-licensed works will need to be
as a whole distributed under GPLv3, but if you carefully mark your new
code as GPLv2-or-later, you can also take those parts out and use them
in GPLv2'd works separately.

This isn't a perfect solution, but there is usually no perfect solution
when it comes to license incompatibility.

--
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy



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Daniel Narvaez
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