Re: Next GNUstep release

[Fred Kiefer]

I just had a look at some of the files in base and there the licence is
given as GNU Lesser General Public License, whereas gui still uses the
term GNU Library General Public License. Shouldn't this be changed as
well? Looks like I have to do more than just replace a number :-(

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I am still planing a GNUstep release for the end of October. I think,
> having a joined base/gui/back release would be great. Having a make
> release as well would only be useful if we change the licence in make to
> GPL 3.
> In gui and back the change of the licence notice in the files is still
> to be done. As far as I remember, we don't have a common view on the
> licence for the daemons, should this be LGPL or GPL? But all files
> should be changed to GPL/LGPL 3, with the one exception xdnd.[ch], where
> we don't have the copyright. I started writing a replacement version,
> but as I wanted something working this time, I never finished it. If
> somebody is interested in the code I am willing to pass it on.
> 
> Judging from the bug reports, my impression is that the current state of
> gui and back (excluding the cairo backend) is rather stable.
>