Re: [glob2-devel] Switch to GPL v3

[Stéphane Magnenat]

> According to the GPL FAQ, the copyright holder is allowed to reliscense
> their works as they please, (as with the Bernes convention). We can not
> enforce a new copyright on the copies people already have, but we can
> release new versions with a changed license based on the same works, being
> that we own the copyright. Since there are multiple contributors, this
> involves multiple people wanting to change their portions to the new
> license, (I could relicense my source files as one and you keep the others
> but thats pointless), as we need everyone in order to move the whole
> project to GPL v3.

Exactly.

> This clause, however, is the legal permission to relicense to a later
> version of GPL by any contributor. People who have made contributations
> know that their copyrighted material may be found under a different
> license, namely GPL 3 or GPL 4 or so on, so we can legally change the
> license to GPL v3 without them.

Yes, and according to Cyrille, this clause itself is illegal and thus null in 
most European jurisdictions. I'm no layer so I can't check this statement.

Steph

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