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Subject: Re: GPLv3

Re: GPLv3

From: Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:44:30 +0200

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:40:04 +0200
Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The important thing here: THE LICENCE OF FILES IN SVN DOES NOT CHANGE,
> we can continue to use less restrictive "GPLv2+"

See for example
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/489093 which
explains that Ubuntu redistributes GPLv3 vlc packages.

At the same time the commitment of VLC to remain licenced with GPLv2+
still holds http://www.videolan.org/press/2007-1.html

-- 
Rafaël Carré
Received on 2010-07-04

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