From 6ad80e31833839e29089d34dfd4c1413df2f9042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raoul Snyman Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:53:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Make the wording about licenses better --- blog/getting-closer-to-openlp-30.rst | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/getting-closer-to-openlp-30.rst b/blog/getting-closer-to-openlp-30.rst index 9086894..afa8b85 100644 --- a/blog/getting-closer-to-openlp-30.rst +++ b/blog/getting-closer-to-openlp-30.rst @@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ end result is a lot better, it also means longer development time. License change -------------- -A few months ago we were made aware that OpenLP violates a few of the licenses that some of OpenLPs -dependencies are under. For instance, PyQt5 is under the GPLv3 license, which is incompatiable with -OpenLPs GPLv2. To resolve this we are planning to relicense OpenLP under the GPLv3 license. To do -this we have contacted all of the known contributors to OpenLP to get their permission to relicense. -So far it has been a success, even though it is a slow process. Not everybody has replied yet, so -if you have contributed in the past but have not been contacted about this, please contact us. +A few months ago we were made aware that OpenLP's current license is not compatible with the +licenses of some of the libraries that OpenLP uses. For instance, PyQt5 is under the GPLv3 license, +which is incompatiable with OpenLPs GPLv2. To resolve this we are planning to relicense OpenLP +under the GPLv3 license. To do this we have contacted all of the known contributors to OpenLP to +get their permission to relicense. So far it has been a success, even though it is a slow process. +Not everybody has replied yet, so if you have contributed in the past but have not been contacted +about this, please contact us. Other news ----------