Can we please relicense?

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Can we please relicense?

Postby Qix on Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:29 pm

Would the devs be opposed to re-licensing the code under something less intrusive? The GPL is obscene and makes a lot of developers wary. Understandably, this is less of a concern with these projects as the community is pretty darn close to dead.

Personally, I try to give Richard Stallman the least amount of credit that is possible.
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Re: Can we please relicense?

Postby PurpleYouko on Mon Sep 28, 2015 2:52 pm

It's not going to be particularly easy to re license all the sources since they were first published under the present license by their original authors and that license states that the original licensing must appear on any modified version of their code.

I think you would have to get the permissions of every single contributor ever
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Re: Can we please relicense?

Postby Qix on Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:19 pm

Meh yeah after looking at the sources more closely, you're definitely right. It's also pretty hard to tell who all contributed on something throughout the last decade or so.

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Re: Can we please relicense?

Postby hoegarden31 on Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:02 pm

We can write all the code again and changing variable names and stuff :p
And release that with a new licence...
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