Hi Andrew, Sure, it should be no problem.
In your version control history, the old versions of the files will still have the old license. That's fine, in fact, someone could even check out and use those old versions under the old license, that's just the way things are in the world of open source. It doesn't sound like you are trying to do "dual licensing" which would be 2 licenses on the same version of the code at the same time. When you are ready to change the license in the newest version of your project's source code, just change the project license at that time. You can do that under the "Administer" tab in your project. There would be nothing on your project's home page that automatically says "GPL" any more, but if you want to you could always document that as part of your project description, or just let interested people find the source code on their own. Regardless of how you use Google Project Hosting, the job of changing licenses can be tricky itself. You obviously are aware of the licensing compatibility issues in the utilities that you mentioned. Also, if you have had multiple authors contributing to your project, you should get their agreement before changing the license. Thanks, jason! On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > My project, php-form-builder-class, is licensed under GNU General > Public License v3. I would like to move to using the MIT license; > however, there are several third party utilities integrated that would > need to be removed first as they wouldn't be compatible with the MIT > license. > > So, I wanted to see what my options are on code.google.com's project > hosting service. I would like to continue to provide the current GPL > licensed version as well as start providing a new MIT licensed > version. Is this possible? > > I'm definitely not an expert in open source licenses, so I would > really appreciate any alternate recommendations on how to handle this > situation as well. > > Thanks, > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
