Re: [Pan-devel] License issue with optional TLS component (bug 693272)

[Petr Kovar]

Hey Heinrich,

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:01:29 +0100
Heinrich Müller <heinrich.mueller82-gM/Ye1E23mwN
address@hidden> wrote:

> Am 09.02.2013 23:36, schrieb Petr Kovar:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was wondering what is others' take on Pan bug 693272?
> >
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693272
> >
> > It indeed looks like we can't feature linking to a LGPLv3 library
> > (gnutls2/3) due to the license incompatibility, which is very unfortunate.
> >
> > Getting permission from all code contributors to relicense the code to
> > "GPLv2 or later" doesn't seem to be very realistic either.
> >
> >
> This sucks.
> I frankly didn't notice before, but perhaps we could license pan under 
> LGPL3?

I think that nowadays it's still the GPLv2 or later that would allow us to
use / link most GPL/LGPL software out there...

> I'm not familiar with the legal mumbo-jumno involved in this.
> Could you ask Charles / are you familiar with this ?

I'll try asking Charles on IRC. Will see.

Cheers, 
Petr Kovar