[IAEP] Voting on GPLv3 motion

[Sam Parkinson]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> 
wrote:
> Hi, Dave
> 
> This is what I have been able to find regarding the GPLv3 motion.
> 
> At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the 
> motion submitted by Sebastian Silva to finalize the transition from 
> GPLv2 to GPLv3 for the Sugar core libraries (Sugar Activity 
> developers are still free to choose whatever Libre license they 
> prefer for their work.) See [2]. I second the motion and bring it to 
> you in an email vote.

Didn't the motion pass?  I already merged the change of licence into 
the sugar repo, as per the approval.

Also, will we migrate sugar-toolkit-gtk3 to LGPLv3+?  What about 
sugar-datastore?

> 
> 
> Approve.
> 
> Tony Anderson
> 
> Approve.
> 
> Sameer
> 
> Approve.
> 
> 
> BTW I'm worried about the fact that the Sugar-Web part (and so 
> Sugarizer too) use the Apache 2.0 Licence.
> I'm not a specialist but what imply a Licence migration ?

These web people and their non copyleft liscenses.  I'm defiantly not a 
copyright holder for sugar-web, but aren't they worried about people 
stealing their work and rolling it into nonfree software?

Thanks,
Sam

> 
>           Lionel.
> 
> +1 para GPLv3 motion
> 
> 
> ___________________
> Lic. José Miguel García
> Montevideo - Uruguay
> 
> Approved!
> 
> Claudia
> 
> Today at 8:04PM (ET) would be the deadline for the GPLv3 motion. (May 
> 13 @ 8:04PM ET)
> 
> So this vote was 6 in favor and one abstention.
> 
> Tony
> 
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