Re: [Libcdio-devel] GPLv3?

[Burkhard Plaum]

Hi,

Karl Berry schrieb:
[...]
> Basically, the only reason not to do an immediate license upgrade is if
> there are known to be significant client packages that are (as Peter
> implied) GPLv2-only, as opposed to GPLv2-or-later.  It doesn't sound
> like there is.

Huh?

- MPlayer is GPL-v2 only and uses libcdio

- Therefore all projects, which borrowed code from MPlayer, should be
  GPL-v2 too (e.g. xine). If they are GPL-v2+, they violate the
  license.

Looks like a deadlock situation :(

If you blame the authors of GPL-v2 projects (for not allowing GPL-v2+)
or the FSF (for making a GPL-license incompatible with it's predecessor)
is up to you.

Therefore IMO GPL-v2+ is the only option for libcdio.

Burkhard