On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 18:47 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@sugarlabs.org> > wrote: > > Q: Do we need to ask the permission of all copyright holders? > > A: No, we'll take advantage of the "or any later version" clause in the > > current license. We're not retroactively re-licensing existing code. > > This isn't actually true. You can't change the license on my code -- > it's still "GPLv2 or later". You can make a combined work where the > new parts are GPLv3, and you can redistribute it under the terms of > the GPLv3 (because of the "or later"), but you cannot change the > license on the existing code unless you are the sole owner. That is > why the FSF does copyright assignment.
Isn't this exactly what I wrote? We're not retroactively re-licensing existing code. > (See discussions on the net, for example: http://lwn.net/Articles/228354/ ) > > I'm also opposed to this change, for three reasons: > a) code of the affected code is mine, and i don't want to do it. Authors can express their intentions through a license. If you didn't want your code to be redistributed under a later versions of the GPL, then why didn't you distribute as GPLv2-only? > b) it seems to have no point, other than a philosophic one. I'm > opposed to change-for-change sake in this matter; it can only make > things worse, and I see nothing which is being made *better*. To me, this seems like the GPv3 has a long list of *practical* advantages over the GPLv2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html A clearer patent license, better compatibility with other licenses, anti-tivoization, protection from the DMCA, no ambiguities for distributors, easier path to return into compliance for accidental violations... > (Ironically, moving to GPLv3 is taking freedoms *away* from users of > Sugar). Which freedoms are being taken away from the users of Sugar? -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep