Hi Gerd, On 07/25/2017 08:11 AM, Gerd Petermann wrote:
as I wrote before I don't care much about the licence. I have no idea what to change. Maybe you can post a patch?
What needs to change is the license header in the various files.
From GPL-2 (only):
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as * published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. To (GPL-2 or GPL-3): * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as * published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. Or (GPL-2+): * 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. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. I'm not the copyright holder of the sources in question, so it's not appropriate for me to provide a patch that changes the license. Using GPL-2+ for all files in mgkmap & splitter would be best, as that also solves the issue when GPL-4 is introduced.
________________________________________ Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces@lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Juli 2017 14:29:12 An: mkgmap-dev Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] License issue in mkgmap & splitter source: GPL-2 (v2 only) incompatible with GPL-3 (v3 only)
Several source files are licensed under the GPL-2 which is incompatible with GPL-3 source in splitter.
To combine GPL-2 code with GPL-3 code, the GPL-2 code needs to be license under the GPL-2+ (v2 or later), or dual-licensed under the GPL-2 (v2 only) or GPL-3 (v3 only).[0]
The mkgmap source files in question:
src/uk/me/parabola/mkgmap/filters/MustSplitException.java src/uk/me/parabola/mkgmap/reader/MapReader.java
The splitter source files in question:
src/uk/me/parabola/splitter/tools/BitReader.java src/uk/me/parabola/splitter/tools/BitWriter.java test/func/ArgsTest.java test/func/Base.java test/func/SolverAndProblemGeneratorTest.java test/func/lib/Args.java test/func/lib/Outputs.java test/func/lib/TestUtils.java test/uk/me/parabola/splitter/tools/TestBitReader.java
Steve & Gerd, can you relicense the code to GPL-2+ (v2 or later) or dual license those files as GPL-2 (v2 only) or GPL-3 (v3 only)?
This issue prevents the update of the mkgmap packages in Debian.
Kind Regards,
Bas
[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
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