Even GPLv3 and GPLv2 are both open source, they are not compatible. Unbelievable, if it is true then CT may need to be worry.
I don't know the details. Does CT mix LibreDWG with something else?
I personally find such issues boring and annoying. It is about nitpicking about license details and forgetting the fundamental idea.
Licensing issue is an important topic for programmers. This discussion is good to continue if we focus on knowledge sharing not for bashing CT.
Yes I guess it is important, although the discussion can be counter-productive. Some people almost managed to turn GPL into its grotesque caricature by mixing lies and FUD and new extra "rules".
The fundamental idea of GPL is freedom, as long as modified sources are published. Somehow people managed to turn that into its very opposite!
GPL is
very idealistic. Unfortunately it reminds of other idealistic movements. How well did they work out? Not very well. I have fantasized about if Christian religion or Communism would have been destroyed at their very beginning, before they were used as excuses to kill and persecute people.
Now the same symptoms are showing around GPL. It is clearly too idealistic. There is a correlation: the more idealistic a doctrine, the more surely it is turned into its very opposite by some people.
Should GPL be destroyed before anything very bad happens?
I can maybe remove lies and FUD in this forum but in the long run I don't see much hope. I can imagine in far future people being jailed and persecuted after copying and modifying GPL code. If this sounds like a joke, please remember how fierce were the attacks against CT and what were the arguments.
I kind of like the "Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License" :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPLIt makes accusations of license violations very difficult.
On the other hand, if all (L)GPL code was now turned into WTFPL, big corporations would make it closed source immediately. Now they
must publish their improved sources which is good.
Handoko, if you must discuss the license details, at least try to remember the big picture behind those details.
A new thread for it would be good, this is not about CT so much.