[geeklog-devel] Geeklog CKEditor Integration

Trinity trinity93 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 28 19:24:53 EDT 2013


my advice is to simply ask CKEditor devs what there take on it is. perhaps
they can give  a special exception or licence


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net> wrote:

> So what you are saying is since the CKEditor is stand alone and in essence
> it and Geeklog just talk to each other we are fine with the 2 different
> licenses?****
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> Tom****
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> *From:* geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net [mailto:
> geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] *On Behalf Of *Niemans
> *Sent:* July-28-13 4:54 PM
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> *To:* Geeklog Development
> *Subject:* Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog CKEditor Integration****
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> From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
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> When we say that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, it means there is no
> legal way to combine code under GPLv2 with code under GPLv3 in a
> single program. This is because both GPLv2 and GPLv3 are copyleft licenses:
> each of them says, *“If you include code under this license in a larger
> program, the larger program must be under this license too.” *There is no
> way to make them compatible. We could add a GPLv2-compatibility clause to
> GPLv3, but it wouldn't do the job, because GPLv2 would need a similar
> clause.
>
> And also
>
> Fortunately, license incompatibility matters only when you want to link,
> merge or combine code from two different programs into a single program.
> There is no problem in having GPLv3-covered and GPLv2-covered programs side
> by side in an operating system. For instance, the TeX license and the
> Apache license are incompatible with GPLv2, but that doesn't stop us from
> running TeX and Apache in the same system with Linux, Bash and GCC. *This
> is because they are all separate programs.* Likewise, if Bash and GCC
> move to GPLv3, while Linux remains under GPLv2, there is no conflict.
>
> Wim****
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> Op 28 jul. 2013, om 18:59 heeft Tom het volgende geschreven:
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> ****
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> No, we are "GPLv2 or later". We have a copy of the GPLv2 in****
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> public_html/docs but that's only the actual text of the license.
>
> Ahh that is where I looked.
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> ****
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> From further reading on the subject from other sources it looks like to me
> ****
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> since we are using "GPLv2 or later" it should be okay to integrate GPLv3
> code.
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> So to me it looks like it will be fine.
>
> Any further insight Dirk? (or anyone else)
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
> [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net<geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net>]
> On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
> Sent: July-28-13 11:40 AM
> To: Geeklog Development
> Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog CKEditor Integration
>
> Ugh, license interpretation time again :-/
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>
> Tom wrote:
>
>
> ****
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> I believe we are GPLv2 only.****
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>
> No, we are "GPLv2 or later". We have a copy of the GPLv2 in
> public_html/docs
> but that's only the actual text of the license. Any code that does have a
> license header (and is GPL - we have one or two other licenses) says this:
>
> // | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> |
> // | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> |
> // | as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
> |
> // | of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> |
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>
> ****
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> I also don't know if it matters that we are integrating a GPLv3 code into*
> ***
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> GPLv2 code and not the other way around.
>
> That is also what I'm not so sure about. However, if it would make a
> difference, it sure would be covered in the GPL FAQ, wouldn't it? But I
> guess we need to confirm this before we can move on.
>
> Personally, I have some reservations regarding the GPLv3 but if mixing it
> with GPLv2 ("or later") code is allowed and we can restrict it to a
> clear-cut part of the project (like a 'ckeditor' directory), then I don't
> see a problem. I just don't want us switching to v3 without a good reason.
>
> bye, Dirk
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