Changing a license is amazingly simple in theory, yet complex enough in practice to be nearly impossible:
The owners of the current copyright simply need to decide to relicense or dual license their code under a new license. Unfortunately, the tens of thousands of people who have contributed to GNOME over the last decade or so probably aren't of the same mind as to whether or not they wish to change, much less on which license they wish to change to. And, unless they *ALL* agree to the same details, it can't be changed. Note that the *users* of GNOME (you, me, the various distro producers...) are not the ones who have a say in the discussion - unless they/we also happen to be contributors... They that wrote it, own it. -John On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Andrew Greimann <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of curiousity, is it possible to convert the GPL-licensed GNOME on > OpenSolaris to the CDDL or MIT licenses? We are NOT talking of LGPL here. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
