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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] ippusbd license
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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
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