gdbm license change

[Iain Arnell]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 20:46 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On 11/14/2011 07:57 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 18:18 +0100, Honza Horak wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> GNU database indexing library (gdbm) has changed its license to GPLv3+.
>> >
>> > A quick scan says this affects:
>> [...]
>> > ypserv (GPLv2)
>>
>> This one looks like an incompatibility.
>
> Without going into details (in that I haven't read the source or the
> licenses in detail, just the GPL compatibility matrix) those are _all_
> likely incompatibilities.

Also without reading the source, just the license tags, all of those
"Lessers" and "pluses" make most of them compatible. Even Perl's
"unholy" license (really (GPL+ or Artistic) and (GPLv2+ or Artistic)
and Copyright Only and MIT and Public Domain and UCD) as a whole
basically boils down to GPLv2+ which is okay (and in reality, it's
only the (GPL+ or Artistic) bits that link with gdbm). The only other
incompatibility seems to be ruby-libs with (Ruby or GPLv2).

-- 
Iain.