Hi,
We talked about this very, very briefly on the PSC - and I can already
say that the topic is quite controversial within the PSC.
I really don't see consensus here at the moment. And even if the PSC
wants to move in this direction, it is the voting members who need to
agree to it - and I personally doubt that a majority of them would
agree. The PSC (or any voting or community member) can suggest such
changes, but it is the voting members who decide/vote on it.
@Nyall - if you want to raise such a voting, you are welcome to do so.
But it needs a proper listing of pros and cons of such a move - and need
to be prepared to give both sides (the proponents and the opponents of
such a change) a fair chance to raise their arguments.
There are other open source projects that did such changes - so it seems
to be possible. But there is a fair chance that it will create a lot of
harm along the process (e.g. split the community into two parts).
Andreas
Am 09.11.18 um 09:06 schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com
<mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Your concerns are very valid, but could we defer this to a different
discussion? I really want to avoid this becoming an us-vs-apple/debate
about the merit of specific licenses, and instead allow it to focus
solely on the question: "should the qgis org, with all the checks and
balances it has in place, have the power to relicense the QGIS
codebase (or not)"?.
Nyall
I'm -1 on this proposal, it's not that I don't trust the PSC (that
have always done an amazing job!), but perhaps because I'm Italian, I
never fully trust the "government", to me the GPL license is like the
constitution and it's there to protect from the possible abuses from
the "government".
Also, I particularly didn't like the "(8. Replace existing code from
any non-signing contributors)", it sounds like "you don't like that?
We don't need you".
--
Alessandro Pasotti
w3: www.itopen.it <http://www.itopen.it>
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