[Sugar-devel] licensing question

[James Cameron]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:23:24PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     If the source license is GPLv3+, then anyone can relicense as Apache
>     2.0.
> 
> NOOOOOOOO :)
> 
> This is ABSOLUTELY false. 
> 
> If the source license is GPLv3+, then anyone can add new code that
> combines with the GPLv3(+) code under Apache 2.0, because the GPLv3
> is _compatible_ with Apache 2.0.
> 
> No one can relicense code other than the copyright holder(s).

Yay, someone's listening.  ;-)  Thanks for the correction.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/