On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 18:47 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Q: Do we need to ask the permission of all copyright holders? >> > A: No, we'll take advantage of the "or any later version" clause in the >> > current license. We're not retroactively re-licensing existing code. >> >> This isn't actually true. You can't change the license on my code -- >> it's still "GPLv2 or later". You can make a combined work where the >> new parts are GPLv3, and you can redistribute it under the terms of >> the GPLv3 (because of the "or later"), but you cannot change the >> license on the existing code unless you are the sole owner. That is >> why the FSF does copyright assignment. > > Isn't this exactly what I wrote? > > We're not retroactively re-licensing existing code.
Really? By moving to GPLv3 your removing the ability to use GPLv2 which is by definition a re-license of the code. Peter _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
