[Printing-architecture] ippusbd license

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 19:56:32 UTC 2014


What are the advantages of GPL2 against GPL3?

   Till

On 06/24/2014 09:27 PM, Ira McDonald wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> 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 at apple.com
> <mailto:msweet at apple.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Till,
> 
>     GPL3 is fine when linking against libcups (LGPL2).  I'm not 100%
>     sure about the other libraries he'll need to use.
> 
>     That said, I am not a fan of the GPL3 and would prefer this be
>     released under GPL2.



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