[IAEP] Voting on GPLv3 motion

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Sam

This was in response to Dave Crossland's concern that the Board is 
acting in secret. The motion passed with 6 votes in favor and one 
abstention.

Tony

On 07/01/2016 11:55 AM, Sam Parkinson wrote:
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> 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?
>
>> _
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>> __Approve.__
>> ____
>> __Tony Anderson__
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>> _Approve._
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>> __
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>> _Sameer__
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>> _Approve._
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>> _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
>
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>> _          Lionel._
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>> _+1 para GPLv3 motion_
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>> _
>> _______________________
>> __Lic. José Miguel García__
>> __Montevideo - Uruguay_
>> _
>> __Approved!_
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>> _
>> _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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