[Osggtk-devel] [Developers] osgGtk and GPLv2+

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The following forum message was posted by mmorelli at http://sourceforge.net/projects/osggtk/forums/forum/839184/topic/4098044:

Dear Rick L. Vinyard Jr.,

my name is Matteo Morelli and I'm the developer and the project admin of
RTSS - the Robotics Toolbox for Scilab/Scicos, a GPLv2+ (where + stands
for "or later") licensed project hosted here at SF.net (group id: 206553
Project Name: rtss).

In order to integrate OSG with GTK and use it in RTSS, I am interested
in including your osgGtk/GraphicsWindowGtk.* and osgGtk/ViewerGtk.*
files in my project's source tree.

However, according to the GPL Compatibility Matrix provided by the FSF,
GPLv3 code cannot be copied/included in GPLv2+ projects unless GPLv2+ is
upgraded to GPLv3. Since I would like to maintain the GPLv2+ license for
compatibility with other GPLv2 softwares, and since we're all developing
GPL code (i.e. non-proprietary nor closed-source-oriented code), I was
wondering if you could kindly release your code also under a GPLv2+
license (like e.g. eigen), or simply add some GPLv2+ friendly linking
exceptions.

Thank you in advance for your time. I look forward for your reply.

Best regards,

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Matteo Morelli