Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

[Carlos Soriano <csoriano protonmail com>]

Aha!

I still get different opinions from different people on that. But that makes sense to me. Probably makes sense to relicense the files too at some point, but that would be a later decision.

Do you know any advantage of relicensing the files themselves?

Best,

Carlos Soriano

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

Local Time: May 25, 2017 12:08 PM

UTC Time: May 25, 2017 10:08 AM

From: swilmet gnome org

To: Carlos Soriano <csoriano protonmail com>

desktop-devel-list gnome org <desktop-devel-list gnome org>

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Carlos Soriano wrote:

> For now we won't relicense the files, since that would require

> copyright holders to agree (iiuc). Instead is the project that will

> become GPL3+, since the combination of GPL2+ + GPL3+ files results in

> a project that is GPL3+.

For the files licensed as GPLv2+, the copyright holders have already

agreed with "any later version", so you can directly relicense to GPLv3+

without asking the permission to each copyright holder.

For LGPL -> GPL, you need the explicit approval of all copyright

holders.

--

Sébastien

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