Re: GPLv3

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, den 12.10.2007, 11:22 +0200 schrieb David Bateman:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 14-Sep-2007, I wrote:
> >
> > | | flex (gpl?)
> > | | hdf5-devel (?)
> > | | ncurses-devel (gpl?)
> > | | zlib-devel (gpl?)
> > |   libcurl
> > |   qhull
> > |   pcre
> > | 
> > | I looked over the licenses, and here is a summary of what I found.
> > | Although I think they are OK, we should probably check these first
> > | seven more closely.
> >
> > I checked, and also asked address@hidden and I think these (and all
> > the other dependencies of Octave) are OK, so I've changed the license
> > of Octave to GPLv3 or any later version.
> >
> > Although this change touches nearly every file in the source tree, I
> > don't think it will cause many conflicts because the changes are
> > mostly to the copyright notices.
> >
> > jwe
> >
> >   
> Does this mean that all licenses on Octave-forge must equally migrate to
> a GPLv3 license?

GPLv2 and later should be fine, shouldn't it? Or are there GPL2-only
packages? 

For other licenses, I don't know. But I'm not aware of any license that
was compatible with GPL2 and isn't with GPL3.

        Thomas