Re: Moving GNUstep applications to GPLv3

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 6/29/07, Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:
> Fred,
>
> Since the code is copyrighted by the FSF, I don't believe that we need to
> contact any of the original contributors to make the change.  The licensing is
> entirely at the discretion of the FSF.

Maybe it is worth to wait and see how other big projects do,
like GCC and GNOME.
And see how it affects some aspects where GNUstep will be used,
like web services (GNUstepWeb) or embedded system (mSTEP).

This article may be worth to read:
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/317
It is clearly against GPLv3, though.

Yen-Ju

> Later, GJC
> --
> Gregory Casamento
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>
> To: GNUstep Developers <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:09:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Moving GNUstep applications to GPLv3
>
> I support this change as well. We already have the choice for the user
> of the library in there:
>
>    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
>    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> What I am not sure about is, whether we are able to change the license
> for old code, where the contributor is no longer in contact with us.
> Does anybody know about this case?
>
> Cheers,
> Fred
>
> Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > Great!   What you explained is the intention.
> >
> > Later, GJC
> > --
> > Gregory Casamento
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Nicola Pero <address@hidden>
> > To: Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden>
> > Cc: GNUstep Developers <address@hidden>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:23:27 PM
> > Subject: RE: Moving GNUstep applications to GPLv3
> >
> >
> >> If we decide to move to the new license, then my opinion on the best way for 
> the
> >> project to proceed is to change the license of our applications (GWorkspace, 
> Gorm,
> >> etc) within GNUstep itself to the GPLv3 license.   All of the libraries 
> should
> >> remain LGPL.
> >
> > You probably mean that the software which is currently under GPLv2 will be
> > moved to GPLv3, and software that is currently under LGPLv2 will be
> > moved to LGPLv3.
> >
> > I would personally support and welcome this change.
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>
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