Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+



On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
That's fine. The license of the compound work just has to be compatible
with the individual files' licenses, it doesn't need to be the exact
same one.
For example, you can have a project mixing GPLv2+, GPLv3+ and BSD
licensed files, and choose to have the compound work be GPLv3+. That
also tells contributors that any new files in the project should be
compatible with that overall license.

I’m not claiming it doesn’t work. I’m just pointing it effectively
means the files haven’t switched licenses, which is what was intended.
nautilus-main.c and others still are under GPLv2+ and one can use them
under GPLv2 if they so choose.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director


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