On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Felipe Borges feborges@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Zdenek Dohnal zdohnal@redhat.com wrote:
Hi,
CUPS upstream changed license of project to Apache license 2.0, which is now incompatible with GPLv2. This change will be in new minor release of CUPS - 2.3.0, which is currently in developing phase (not in Fedora for now). If someone takes code of CUPS and has its project under GPLv2, please change it to GPLv3 (which should be compatible according https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses ) or try to argument with CUPS developers against this change on their mailing list cups@cups.org .
Is there someone who is influenced by this change?
Therefore it should not affect dynamic-linking situations against libcups, right?
It will. Previously, it was licensed under GPLv2 + LGPLv2 with Apple exceptions. Now it is ASL 2.0 across the board. GPLv2 projects can not link to the newer version.