Re: [Cgdb-devel] cgdb license.

[Gilboa D. <gi...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 11:28 -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:46:32PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm the maintainer of cgdb under both RHEL and Fedora.
> > Seems that Fedora is about to switch to a GPLv3 readline library.
> > To the best of my knowledge, cgdb still uses GPLv2 (and not GPLv2+)
> > which is incompatible with GPLv3.
> > 
> > Any chance that future versions of cgdb will switch to GPLv2+?
> 

Hello Bob,

Thanks for the answer.

> Would releasing the next version under GPLv3 solve the problem?

Yes.

> 
> I sort of don't like the idea of releasing with the license GPLv2+.
> My objection to that is simply that I don't like releasing software
> under a license that I have not had the opportunity to read yet.
> 

No problem.
F12 is ~5 months away.
Take your time :)

> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi

- Gilboa