Re: [glob2-devel] Version 3 of GPL license issued yesterday

[Kai Antweiler]

> Well, putting aside the fact that he has actually agreed to the change to v3
> (see Nct's email), he hasn't commited anything in over 14 months!

Copyright doesn't vanish after 14 month.
I don't think that any contributer of glob2 would object to v3.
The problem lies in bureaucracy.


> > Apart from being illegal, incorrect license handling can get us kicked out
> of debian distributions easily.
>
> Ok,  I didn't know it was illegal. I was under the impression it was good
> practice to avoid anyone from the past from using gpl v2 against us in the
> future. If it is illegal, how many (aside from all which is impossible) do
> we need? (having now recived the ok for the switch from all major devs in
> globs lifetime).

Maybe I understood Cyrille wrong, but I thought see said that
relicensing is illegal
in some countries, even when you have all contributers agree on it.

Anyway, I don't think we have to come up with a solution ourself.
Many open source projects will have the same problem.
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Kai Antweiler