15:05 <popey> #startmeeting Docviewer meeting
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15:05 <popey> how are you sverzegnassi ? Good break?
15:06 <sverzegnassi> I'm fine, I had a great time during the break! Hope you had the same!
15:06 <popey> I did ☻
15:06 <popey> This week I pushed latest trunk of docviewer to the store
15:07 <popey> Did you want to talk about the license issue?
15:08 <sverzegnassi> The code I'd like to take from sailfish-office is GPL v2-only licensed
15:08 <sverzegnassi> If I'm not wrong, our document viewer is GPL v3-only software
15:08 <popey> Ok.
15:09 <popey> So the first thing I'd do is contact the author of sailfish-office and ask if they'd consider releasing under gpl v3.
15:09 <sverzegnassi> That would be great
15:09 <popey> Would you like me to do that, or do you want to?
15:10 <sverzegnassi> I'd prefer if you do that, since I have no much spare time in these days (I have an exam on 13th, Jan)
15:10 <popey> Ok, no problem. I'll do it.
15:10 <popey> Got a link to the project page handy?
15:11 <sverzegnassi> https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-office
15:11 <popey> thanks
15:12 <sverzegnassi> I found the mail in the code header. Robin has been very kind the last time
15:12 <popey> I'll let you know
15:12 <popey> Great.
15:12 <sverzegnassi> ok!
15:13 <popey> Hm, as it's based on calligra we may not have much luck.
15:13 <popey> but we can talk to them anyway.
15:14 <popey> Hmm.
15:14 <popey> As it's a separate library, can't we use it anyway? So long as we ship their gpl v2 code, and our gpl v3 code.. that should be fine I thought
15:15 * popey pokes mhall119 who is more of a license nerd than me
15:16 <mhall119> huh what?
15:16 <popey> mhall119: hello!
15:16 <mhall119> morning
15:17 <sverzegnassi> hi!
15:17 <popey> docviewer is gplv3, we're interested in using https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-office (which is based on Caligra) and is GPL v2 only (not 'or higher')
15:17 <mhall119> using all of it, or part of it in one of our apps?
15:18 <popey> a lot of it.
15:18 <mhall119> ok, our quick list of options are:
15:19 <mhall119> (A) Ask them to separate the reusable parts and re-license them as LGPL (v2 or v3, doesn't matter)
15:19 <mhall119> (B) Ask them to re-license the whole thing at GPLv3
15:19 <mhall119> (C) Relicense all of our app at GPLv2
15:20 <mhall119> I *think* we can license ours at "GPLv2 or higher" and still incorporate their "GPLv2 only" code, as long as people know they can't re-license those parts under an "or higher" license
15:20 <mhall119> but that would get messy
15:20 <popey> right, we'd need to be clear in the source tree, which bits are which
15:21 <popey> but I don't think it's unreasonable to do
15:21 <popey> so long as we document it in the license file
15:21 <popey> I'll contact them. Thanks mhall119
15:22 <popey> sverzegnassi: What else do we need to discuss?
15:23 <mhall119> popey: it might be that the Calligra bits they use are already LGPL
15:23 <sverzegnassi> popey: Not much to discuss! The other things I was working on are still WIP.
15:23 <popey> Ok. I'll get in touch, do some research and get back to you asap sverzegnassi
15:24 <sverzegnassi> Ok, thank you!
15:24 <popey> Good luck with with your exam!
15:25 <sverzegnassi> I hope to keep the grade I took in the first part of the exam :P
15:25 <sverzegnassi> Thank you!
15:25 <popey> sverzegnassi: Ok, have a great weekend, I'll be in touch by mail. Thanks.
15:26 <sverzegnassi> Ok! Cheers! Have a nice weekend!
15:26 <popey> #endmeeting