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MartinK is offline MartinK
2013-12-17 , 00:17
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Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
But again, why should it prevent them from offering GPLv3 variant for those who aren't scared? It's annoying that potential GPLv3 paranoiacs (Sailfish vendors) are influencing the up to date status of these packages.
I would guess its mostly about manpower. There aren't that many people working on Mer and I would expect them to be already pretty overworked. So maintaining a double set of core system packages might be a but too much for them at the moment.

On the other hand, Mer is an open project and I would guess if there were people interested in maintaining a GPLv3 & more up to date "overlay" for those problematic outdated & GPLv2 packages, they might be welcome in the project.

Well, I would say even just making a list of the outdated GPLv3 packages & updated GPLv3 alternatives would be a good start. Next step could be an OBS project based on "regular" Mer with updated packages and so forth.
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