<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian <<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yes, you seem to be confused Bernie. You can redistribute under a<br>
> license however you like, usually without explicitly stating it. But<br>
> if you alter the source files or replace COPYING, you are *changing<br>
> the license*. That is a different act.<br>
<br>
</div>You are right but in practice in this case there isn't much difference.<br>
<br>
Anybody, following GPLv2, can just redistribute it under GPLv3, and<br>
you *could* track each file as to GPLv2, v3, or mixed. But that would<br>
be a lot of bureaucracy that wouldn't help anyone -- anybody<br>
interested in GPLv2 sources should just go to the last commit or<br>
release under v2.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> A more passive-aggressive means to your end might be to announce that<br>
> SugarLabs will only accept new contributions which are licensed<br>
> GPLv3+. That will effect the redistribution change you want, while<br>
> still (a) pissing off parts of the community, and (b) not illegally<br>
> altering the license on code you do not own.<br>
<br>
</div>Honestly, option b is rather annoying if relevant authors/owners of<br>
the copyright aren't in agreement. But it has notthing illegal.<br>
<br>
The "copyright lines" are advisory only, and nonbinding. Of course,<br>
courts look unfavourably upon knowing infringers that remove (as upon<br>
anyone found hiding evidence) them but they aren't sacred in the<br>
normal course of things.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Before this thread ends up something that only copyright lawyers really understand I'd like to take a step back and ask what the SLOB's rationale behind the proposed motion<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> to move from GPLv2 to GPLv3 is? In other words: What specific advantages does GPLv3 offer for Sugar, its community and the individuals, groups, and organizations/deployments using it?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks,<br>
Christoph</span></font></div></div><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>