[sword-devel] Script to find a best fit v11n

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 8:43 AM Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:

> On Mon Jun 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM CEST, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> > From what I understand as someone who isn't a lawyer but has done
> > licensing audits for applications in Ubuntu and Debian, you'll only
> > run into issues if you publish *built binaries* of your code.
>
> That technically may be true, but it is a stupid idea. You don’t
> do open source software, which nobody can package and distribute.
>
> And apparently FSF doesn’t agree with my analysis:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility


Indeed, they are very clear about the Incompatibilities and that is part of
the reason they strongly suggest people use the "or later" language when
using GPL licenses. But they themselves note that there are significant
projects that do not opt for it.


>
> So, my only advice is to relicense your new program under GPLv2
> and send FSF to … Apparently, you will be in the distinguished
> company of Linus Torvalds and many others.
>

That wouldn't help. I still couldn't distribute it because of the GPLv3
Slint licensing. My issue isn't that I want to use GPLv2 only. My problem
is that I have two libraries I use, one of which is v2 only, the other is
v3 or commercial. Thus, there is no way, other than as raw source, for me
or anyone else to distribute my application.

--Greg


> Best,
>
> Matěj
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