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From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de>
To: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] ippusbd license
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:56:24 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1406250950480.3873@nelson.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN40gSsvBphwY22EKrx15k3k6B4zkLapy3+8SLVhFTNr6zzO=w@mail.gmail.com>


Hello,

On Jun 24 15:27 Ira McDonald wrote (excerpt):
> I agree with Mike about preferring GPL2 over GPL3, from comments
> from some of my colleagues at printer and OS vendors.
...
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote:
>> ... I am not a fan of the GPL3 and would prefer this be released
>> under GPL2.

Also SUSE/openSUSE in general prefer GPL2 over GPL3.

But I am neither a licensing expert nor a lawyer so that I cannot
tell you the reasoning behind (if needed I can get you in
contact with an expert at SUSE/openSUSE).


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
-- 
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany
HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-25  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m38up3ymxw.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org>
2014-06-24 18:35 ` [Printing-architecture] ippusbd license Till Kamppeter
2014-06-24 19:06   ` Michael Sweet
2014-06-24 19:27     ` Ira McDonald
2014-06-24 19:56       ` Till Kamppeter
2014-06-24 19:59         ` James Cloos
2014-06-25 11:09         ` Michael Sweet
2014-06-25 14:26           ` Till Kamppeter
2014-06-25 16:05             ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-25 16:24               ` Michael Sweet
2014-06-25 17:36                 ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-25 20:51                   ` Ira McDonald
2014-06-25 21:14                     ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-25 21:28                       ` Ira McDonald
2014-06-25 21:42                         ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-25 21:49                         ` Till Kamppeter
2014-06-25 22:00                           ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-26  1:59                       ` Michael Sweet
2014-06-26  7:59                         ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-26  8:19                           ` Daniel Dressler
2014-06-25  7:56       ` Johannes Meixner [this message]

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