On 02/26/2018 10:41 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
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.
Solomon asked
about the issue on legal list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.o...
. I concluded from Tom's comment that even declaring CUPS as OS-supplied
library needs to be documented in a way (not mention this isn't solution
which Debian/Ubuntu would approve).
I presented both Tom's solutions (mentioned in his email) to Mike on
cups-devel mailing list+github issue, but without any decision yet
(pinged him during beta and release candidate).
It's sad - I will not package cups 2.3 for Fedora until it is solved...
Github issue:
https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5174
(It would be a different matter if CUPS itself depended on GPLv2
components. I have not checked that.)
I checked requirements in spec - CUPS
doesn't need any GPLv2only
component for building nor linking.
Thanks,
Florian
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