Re: gEDA-dev: GPL3

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:11:58AM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> If all of the contributors have said that "you may choose to license this work 
> under the GPL v2 or any later version", then you can do exactly that, 
> copyright assignment or not.  They've already given you permission to 
> distribute it under the GPL v3 -- you don't need to get it explicitly (this 
> is rather the _point_ of the "any later version" clause)!
> 
> If and when Ales decides to move to distributing and maintaining gEDA/gaf 
> under the GPL v3, he can do exactly that.

I think this means that GPLv3-only and GPLv2-or-later sources can be
mixed within one program or library, resulting in a GPLv3-only work in
aggregate. However, the license on individual source files stands and
those may be reused in other GPLv2-only programs.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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