On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:11:29AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > I think that yes: the GNOME website should link back to the GNU > website in the "about" section. care to file a bug?
Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727740 > > We can also upgrade our software licences to the GPLv3 and LGPLv3. > > "we" as in...? GNOME developers and maintainers. > basically all parts of the GNOME stack are licensed under (L)GPLv2 or > later already, and some of it are under (L)GPLv3 or later. even if we > don't take the "or later" at face value, re-licensing our platform is > going to be impossible: we don't have copyright assignment (for a lot > of good reasons) and in some cases some contributors do not exist any > more, making the re-licensing effort a non-starter. I don't understand. If the licence mentions "or later", I thought it was possible to upgrade to a later version without asking to every contributors, since the contributors have agreed on the "or later". > on top of that, the v2 has given us the widest adoption possible, and > unlike other entities we cannot re-license dual-license for commercial > work. I personally don't want to see the ecosystem of companies using > GNOME technologies dwindle even more. If you refer to proprietary software when you say "commercial work", the GNOME libraries are anyway in LGPL AFAIK, so companies can build proprietary software on top of GTK+ for example. And I don't understand how an upgrade to the (L)GPLv3 would be a decline for the GNOME ecosystem. But I'm far from an expert in licences, so it's probably more complicated than I think. Sébastien _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list