I am happy to report the motion to complete the migration to GPLv3 has passed (6 votes in favor, 1 member choosing not to vote).
regards. -walter On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > My sincerest apologies. I realize I forgot to CC the lists on this email. > > So far we have approval for the motion from: > > Walter, Sameer, Claudia, José MIguel, Tony, and Lionel. Still waiting to > hear back from Adam, but as you can see, the motion has passed. > > regards. > > -walter > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:04 PM > Subject: [SLOB] GPLv3 motion > To: SLOBs <sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org> > > > At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Sebastian Silva to finalize the transition from GPLv2 to GPLv3 > for the Sugar core libraries (Sugar Activity developers are still free to > choose whatever Libre license they prefer for their work.) See [2]. I > second the motion and bring it to you in an email vote. > > Background: In 2011 a referendum was held among the membership of Sugar > Labs. > > "Based on a sheer count of 1st place votes, v3 received 49% of the vote, > v2 received 29% of the vote, and the apathetic position received the > remaining 22% of the vote." > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/032529.html > > A detailed discussion about the rationale for the change can be found at > [3]. In the more recent discussion at [2], there was some concern regarding > the OLPC anti-theft system, but James Cameron said "Therefore, no > relicensing obstacle as far as OLPC anti-theft is concerned." > > Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation > for a vote on the following motion. > > Motion: Complete the transition to GPLv3 for Sugar core libraries as per > PR #685 (https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/685). > > regards. > > -walter > > [1] > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06 > [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/685 > [3] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-April/030926.html > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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