On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: >> decides to go for GPLv3+, and then leaves the project, it is possible >> that a rewrite would need to happen for the new people getting >> involved to avoid the limitation of GPLv3 which is not present in >> GPLv2. This would impose an additional overhead for the project. > > This is not limited to GPLv3, of course, but also GPL->LGPL (for instance). > This is one of the reasons KDE e.V. introduced the FLA agreement, so that if > people do go away we can continue to manage the licensing of the code within > the boundaries set out (must be Free software, stick to the licenses in our > policies, etc.) I hope that a large % of KDE community members have signed it > by now as it resolves this exact issue.
Excellent point, Aaron! There's still a lot of developers who have not signed an FLA. If you're one of them please do consider doing so. The details are at http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
