Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

[Carlos Soriano <csoriano gnome org>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> wrote:

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.

Not really. The intention was "do we assume Nautilus project is gpl3+ now?" Otherwise we would have to request permission for every file that was gpl3+ to be gpl2+ etc etc.

 

nautilus-main.c and others still are under GPLv2+ and one can use them
under GPLv2 if they so choose.

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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director

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