Re: [Denemo-devel] Re: denemo and GPLv3

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 23:19 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> I am still unsure about it.
> It is not clear
I think that must be so, othewise no significant projects could switch.
>  if we are allowed to change it without getting permission from the original 
> authors and contributers.
> 
> But more important: GPL2 still works for us.
It does nothing for us until someone tries to abuse Denemo in some way,
then we find out if it was carefully written or there were loopholes.
>  Why should we change a running system?
Because others take more interest and know more about it?
Richard

> 
> Nils
> 
> On Wed, 05 May 2010 14:49:36 +0100
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 23:30 +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> > > Hi everyone -- did we discuss upgrading denemo to GPLv3-or-later?  I
> > > belatedly noticed the new release was still GPLv2, it seemed.  Any
> > > problems with switching next time?
> > I posted this email on to denemo-devel, but apart from some emails about
> > whether GPLv3 is a good thing nothing has happened. Looking around the
> > denemo code, it looks like what you would do is replace the file COPYING
> > with a new one (I expect there is a correct place to get it from...).
> > If that is right and no-one objects I will do that.
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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