However, if we just talk about moving from GPL v2 to v3 - I think this
would definitely be possible.
A change to a more permissive license is a different thing. There you
need really, really good arguments to convince the majority of the
voting members, I think.
Please don't see this as a PSC opinion - it is my own, personal opinion,
and as I said, the PSC doesn't have an official "opinion" yet on this topic.
Greetings,
Andreas
Am 09.11.18 um 09:21 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
Hi,
We talked about this very, very briefly on the PSC - and I can already
say that the topic is quite controversial within the PSC.
I really don't see consensus here at the moment. And even if the PSC
wants to move in this direction, it is the voting members who need to
agree to it - and I personally doubt that a majority of them would
agree. The PSC (or any voting or community member) can suggest such
changes, but it is the voting members who decide/vote on it.
@Nyall - if you want to raise such a voting, you are welcome to do so.
But it needs a proper listing of pros and cons of such a move - and
need to be prepared to give both sides (the proponents and the
opponents of such a change) a fair chance to raise their arguments.
There are other open source projects that did such changes - so it
seems to be possible. But there is a fair chance that it will create a
lot of harm along the process (e.g. split the community into two parts).
Andreas
Am 09.11.18 um 09:06 schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com
<mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Your concerns are very valid, but could we defer this to a different
discussion? I really want to avoid this becoming an
us-vs-apple/debate
about the merit of specific licenses, and instead allow it to focus
solely on the question: "should the qgis org, with all the checks and
balances it has in place, have the power to relicense the QGIS
codebase (or not)"?.
Nyall
I'm -1 on this proposal, it's not that I don't trust the PSC (that
have always done an amazing job!), but perhaps because I'm Italian,
I never fully trust the "government", to me the GPL license is like
the constitution and it's there to protect from the possible abuses
from the "government".
Also, I particularly didn't like the "(8. Replace existing code from
any non-signing contributors)", it sounds like "you don't like that?
We don't need you".
--
Alessandro Pasotti
w3: www.itopen.it <http://www.itopen.it>
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