Re: The legal situation
Posted by
R. van Twisk on
Aug 07, 2011; 11:33pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/The-legal-situation-tp4673951p4676001.html
Hey,
I made a big boo boo there and I cannot believe that I have seen it before,
even though I was pointed to this 2 or 3 times, I 'think' I always looked at the original
source and I always though I applied a correct GPLv2 license which I didn't.
Let me be clear, LibreCAD is licensed as GPLv2, this was always stored
like this in my brain aswell. I must have copied a wrong license
and read many times over the 'or higher' portion, sorry guys,
I don't have a language brain (after seven years living in Ecuador,
I still don't speak or understand a whole lot of spanish.... imagine).
Anyways,
I will try and see if I can change the license throughout the complete
git tree to correct this situation.
Again my apologies to this situation.
Ries
On Aug 7, 2011, at 4:05 PM, zxq9 [via LibreCAD] wrote:
This is where I get it from:
[ceverett@jalapeno LibreCAD]$ head -n 12 LibreCAD/src/main/main.cpp
/****************************************************************************
**
** This file is part of the LibreCAD project, a 2D CAD program
**
** Copyright (C) 2010 R. van Twisk (
[hidden email])
** Copyright (C) 2001-2003 RibbonSoft. All rights reserved.
**
**
** 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.
And... checking the QCad code does not show that. So now we're left with a sort of ambiguous situation. An abandonned project (QCad) being picked up by a new community which made significant changes and re-reeleased as GPLv2+. Interesting.
So this is more complex than I thought. I need to get in touch with the legal guys at Red Hat and let you know what they have to say.