(L)GPLv3 licensing dilemma: gpg stack

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Donnerstag, 9. August 2007, Werner Koch wrote:
> > (1) in fedora anyway, including: basket, centericq, claws-mail, gpa, kdepim,
> > licq, mcabber, pygpgme, seahorse, sylpheed.  Many of these are currently
> > GPLv2 only.
> 
> Yeah, the Qt problem.

Qt has not a big as some of the others. For Qt there is only
a single copyright holder who can change the license in one go.

Many other tools lack "legal maintainability" and are virtually unable
to switch the license ever.

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