[pygtk] LPGL3?

[Johan Dahlin]

Alex Roitman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:12 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote:
>   
>> Alex Roitman wrote:
>>     
>>> Are there any plans to switch to LGPLv3 any time soon?
>>>   
>>>       
>> We're already licensed under LGPL v2 or later, what would be the 
>> benefits of changing to only v3 (or later)?
>>     
>
> I have no idea, I would like to know if you guys are planning
> it or not, for whatever reasons you may have.
>
>   
>> You can already take the code and relicense it yourself under LGPLv3 if 
>> you wish.
>>     
>
> Yes, I know.
> We (the GRAMPS project) are based on pygtk. So if gtk and pygtk
> go LGPL3 we would probably also go GPL3. Otherwise, even though
> we could stay "GPL2 or later", we would effectively be GPL3
> once there's no LGPL2-pygtk around.
>
> If you're not planning to switch to LGPL3 then we can technically
> stay GPL2 or later.
>
>
> So no plans to go LGPL3 at this time, right?
>   
No, nothing is planned at the moment.
PyGTK is lusing the same license as the rest of the GTK stack,
it's likely that we switch when they do.

Johan