[Savannah-hackers] Re: License compatibility

[Mathieu Roy]

Vincent Caron <address@hidden> a tapoté :

> Mathieu Roy wrote:
>>>
>>>CPL is a free license, that's why it was accepted on Savannah. However
>>>it is true that you cannot combine CPL 1.0 and GPL v2. It looks like
>>>this issue is more or less debated, maybe you could send some
>>>encouragements to the Eclipse and SWT people to update their licensing
>>>scheme to something GPL compatible, it would benefit everybody.
>>>
>>> From here, you can either choose another toolkit (like GTK+), or
>>>relicense your project (CPL or BSD comes to mind). You'll have to
>>>contact us again to change the displayed licensed on your project page
>>>when you have made up your mind.
>> Note that the CPL, as it is incompatible with the GPL, will not be
>> accepted.
>
> Ouch I missed that one. It seems I'm not the only one since someone
> once accepted the project. Has the 'GPL-compatible only' licensing
> constraint always been required on Savannah ?

Yes. 

For that project
    - his license is indeed GPL-compatible, it is GPL
    - it depends on free software (dependancies does not have to be
    GPL-compatible but only free software).

So it can be hosted here.

But this project has never been accepted as "CPLed" if I'm not
dreaming. 

A project can depends on a non-GPL-compatible license and still be
GPL. For instance, you can make GPL software dependent on apache,
there is no problem, can't you?





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