[parted-devel] Migrating to GPLv3

[Anant Narayanan]

Hi,

As you may be aware, the Free Software Foundation released the 3rd  
iteration of the General Public License on June 29th, 2007. As an  
official GNU project, it is our responsibility to set an example to  
other free software projects by migrating to the new license.

GNU Parted may be viewed as two separate projects: the `libparted'  
library and the default command-line frontend `parted'. While  
converting the license for `parted' should not be a major issue,  
`libparted' is used by several other projects, who must be consulted  
before this change.

The current plan to release GNU Parted 1.8.8 under the GPL v3. If you  
are a developer in one of the projects that use `libparted' and have  
any concerns over the change, please voice them now.

Best Regards,
--
Anant Narayanan
http://www.kix.in/