Hello,
Le 25/03/2013 11:31, Niels Möller a écrit :
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopoulos-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes:
If by encouragement you mean something else could you please clarify that?
CUPS seems to be the most well-known example of a GPLv2-only program which uses (or should use) gnutls, which then depends on gmp and nettle.
We also use gnutls (and nettle, and thus gmp) in VLC media player.
While technically our code is GPLv2 or later, we would prefer to distribute binaries under GPLv2, as stated in our press release: http://www.videolan.org/press/2007-1.html
To remain compatible with GPLv2 we are using an old release (4.2.1) http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7e69850c6cf579dc01ff2e7c20...
which lacks for example compatibility with Windows 64bits, and according to Martin Storsjö, it also gives problems on MacOSX.
I'm willing to help you with dual-licensing LGPLv3/GPLv2 as it would very much help us on VLC.
I know almost nothing about CUPS. So if GMP relicensing is required to suit CUPS' needs, then it would be encouraging if someone who actually *knows* CUPS (both technically and the licensing/policy issues) would step forward and be willing to discuss it.
If we go only by third-party information, we might end up going through a relicensing process which distracts us from real work, only to learn later thet the CUPS maintainers decided to use openssl exclusively anyway.
Regards,