[Fedora-legal-list] mixing (A)GPLv3+ and GPLv2 sources in a python project

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Fri Oct 22 16:14:01 UTC 2010


Tom "spot" Callaway píše v Pá 22. 10. 2010 v 12:06 -0400: 
> On 10/22/2010 11:42 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm doing a review for OpenERP [1] client [2] and server [3], all
> > written in Python.
> > 
> > The client in version 6.0 uses AGPLv3+ for most of its files and GPLv2
> > for few of them (imported 3rd party library in
> > bin/SpiffGtkWidgets/Calendar). Is such mixing possible?
> > 
> > The client in version 5.x uses GPLv3+ for the majority of files, the
> > rest is the same GPLv2 which is in my opinion not possible.
> 
> Assuming you mean GPLv2 only, the answer is that both situations have
> compatibility problems. You should ask upstream to try to resolve the
> incompatibilities. The simplest way to do so would be to relicense the
> GPLv2 only files to GPLv2 or later (Note: You'll probably end up talking
> to both the OpenERP upstream and the 3rd party upstream).

thanks, Tom

yes, it's GPLv2 only and to tell the truth I didn't expect such problem
in this project


Dan





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