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

[Heinrich Müller]

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

Cheers.