Re: GPLv3

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2007, 14:35 -0400 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> Since Octave is "GNU Octave", the GNU project would like for us to
> switch to GPLv3 for future releases.  Since Octave 3.0 will be coming
> soon (really, this time I mean it) we need to consider this switch
> now.  Of the many dependencies we have, are there any which have
> licenses that are OK with GPLv2 but conflict with GPLv3?  For example,
> any that are "GPLv2 only" (without the "at your option, any later
> version" clause)?  I suppose the first thing to do is make a list of
> all the dependencies.  Do we have one?  If not, it would be useful to
> have anyway.

How about asking the FSF for the licenses where we are not sure? I don't
think Octave is the only software using different libraries, so
collecting the "is GPL3 (in)compatible" information in a central place
might make sense for anyone.

        Thomas