[yocto] libsoup license

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 September 2015 at 21:43, Dan Winship <danw at gnome.org> wrote:

> It was initially written at a time when Ximian was explicitly using the
> "v2 only" license on evolution (because reasons), so it's possible that
> libsoup was intended to be v2 only, since it was more-or-less part of
> evolution. But then, Novell relicensed evolution to v2+ later on, so
> presumably, if libsoup actually was v2-only at that point (which it may not
> have been), then surely Novell *intended* to also make libsoup v2+, despite
> not having said so. So... "maybe it used to be v2+" + "probably it was
> intended to have been changed to v2+ later if it wasn't already" +
> "certainly everything written since 2007 was intended to be v2+" ==
> "probably definitely it's v2+ now" ? That's totally how the law works,
> right?
>

Thanks for the reply Dan, and yes that's totally how the law works.  Maybe
you should clarify this somewhere, or do you prefer the ambiguity?

Sander, a patch to make libsoup LGPLv2+ would be accepted by me on this
basis.

Ross
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