HI there, please answer the question, what is wrong with having a gplv3 plugin for these other apps? mike
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva < pita...@members.fsf.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 06:13 -0800, Hamish wrote: > > Felipe wrote: > > > But the most important question now: is it possible to do such a > > > re-licensing? Is it possible to go backwards, from v3 to v2? > > > > only with the full written consent of every author who has ever > > contributed a line of code to the project in question. for small one- > > programmer project's it's easy (they can relicense it as anything > > they please), for large multi-contributer projects it is next to > > impossible. > > > Yes, it is possible to switch from v3 to v2 (or anything else). It is up > to the current copyright holder: the FSF. I am still waiting for a > response for the license change request. > -- > Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva > > http://garoa.net.br > http://gnu.org > http://polignu.org > > Sent from Trisquel GNU/Linux > > > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
