26 Feb
2018
26 Feb
'18
10:41 a.m.
On 11/08/2017 01:45 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
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.
On the other hand, libgcc switched to GPLv3+ with exceptions (but those exceptions do not restore GPLv2 compatibility), so under this strict interpretation, we could not ship any GPLv2 userspace software anyway.
So I wonder if we can just declare CUPS a system library and move on.
(It would be a different matter if CUPS itself depended on GPLv2 components. I have not checked that.)
Thanks, Florian