[Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GPLv3 motion

[Walter Bender]

I am happy to report the motion to complete the migration to GPLv3 has
passed (6 votes in favor, 1 member choosing not to vote).

regards.

-walter

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My sincerest apologies. I realize I forgot to CC the lists on this email.
>
> So far we have approval for the motion from:
>
> Walter, Sameer, Claudia, José MIguel, Tony, and Lionel. Still waiting to
> hear back from Adam, but as you can see, the motion has passed.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:04 PM
> Subject: [SLOB] GPLv3 motion
> To: SLOBs <slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Background: In 2011 a referendum was held among the membership of Sugar
> Labs.
>
> "Based on a sheer count of 1st place votes, v3 received 49% of the vote,
> v2 received 29% of the vote, and the apathetic position received the
> remaining 22% of the vote."
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/032529.html
>
> A detailed discussion about the rationale for the change can be found at
> [3]. In the more recent discussion at [2], there was some concern regarding
> the OLPC anti-theft system, but James Cameron said "Therefore, no
> relicensing obstacle as far as OLPC anti-theft is concerned."
>
> Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation
> for a vote on the following motion.
>
> Motion: Complete the transition to GPLv3 for Sugar core libraries as per
> PR #685 (https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/685).
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06
> [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/685
> [3] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-April/030926.html
>
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