[Gimp-developer] Gimp license

[Michael Natterer]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:10 -0500,
saulgoode at flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote:
> The licensing specified in the files app/gui/ige-mac-menu.[ch] appears  
> to be LGPL2.1 with no "or later" clause. LGPLv2.1 permits, without any  
> further authorization, changing the code's license to later GPL  
> versions (but apparently not subsequent LGPL versions); so the  
> copyright holder's permission isn't strictly necessary to relicense  
> the code as GPL3, but it would seem appropriate and courteous to check  
> if they wouldn't rather add the "or later" option to their LGPLv2.1  
> code (obviating the need to re-license as GPL3). The copyright holder  
> of those files is Imendio; perhaps Andreas Nilsson could address this  
> (otherwise it should be possible to make contact with the copyright  
> holders through their developer forums @  
> http://developer.imendio.com/forum).

I'm co-author of this file and the other author is Richard Hult. I'm
sure he is fine with having the files in a GPLv3 project, but I will
ask him anyway.

ciao,
--mitch