Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Moving Sugar to GPLv3+

2011-04-22 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The oversight board is considering a motion to upgrade the license of Sugar from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later. Before proceeding to a vote, we'd like to request feedback from the community. Interesting. (Bad

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Moving Sugar to GPLv3+

2011-04-22 Thread Sebastian Silva
Even though I haven't spoken with Bernie about his rationale for proposing the upgrade of the license I would like to explain why I strongly feel that as a member of the SLOBs board and as a representative of the community I have the duty to back the proposal. You see GPL is not only a

[Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Moving Sugar to GPLv3+

2011-04-21 Thread Bernie Innocenti
The oversight board is considering a motion to upgrade the license of Sugar from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later. Before proceeding to a vote, we'd like to request feedback from the community. In particular, we'd like to know how this change might affect you as a Sugar end-user, distributor,