On 08/06/2017 08:41 AM, Gerd Petermann wrote: > okay, I see no problem to change to GPL-2+ for sources written by me, but if > that also means we need permissions from authors who did not post anything > since many > years you can probably forget this. A quick check in mkgmap sources shows > 297 java sources with > GPL-3 or GPL-2+ licence and 273 with GPL-2 only. Most of the latter (236) > are from Steve Ratcliffe or have no copyright section.
Yes, hunting down past contributors is a problem with relicensing. Alternatively GPL-3 (v3 only) sources must be kept out of mkgmap & splitter, because that introduces the license incompatibility with the many GPL-2 (v2 only) sources. Kind Regards, Bas _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
