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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">You just need to get every contributor so far to agree with the change.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">By the way, is there any known explanation why a KDE project cannot use only a GPL license higher than 3? Why is GPLv2 mandatory?</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">O Domingo, 23 de Xuño de 2013 06:45:47 Gustav González escribiu:<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">2013/6/23 Andreas Cord-Landwehr <<a href="mailto:cordlandwehr@kde.org"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">cordlandwehr@kde.org</span></a>><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:46px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono'; font-size:9pt;">One maybe problematic point I noted is the license: In KDE we require all source code to be GPL v2 compatible [1], meaning GPL v3 does not comply with the license policy. Hence, would relicensing the code to be GPL v2 compatibly (e.g. to license "GPL v2 or GPL v3 or any later") be an option?<br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br /> Ironies of life: when I changed the license of Tupi from GPLv2 to GPLv3, I did it looking for "more freedom" or something<br /> like that. I have no idea about laws but as far as I understood, the version 3 ensures that the code will be always available<br /> for the people "more than" the version 2, at least for some specific cases. Anyway, it doesn't matter any more.<br /><br /> Question: How should I make this license change without getting in a legal issue? I mean: it can be done without any kind<br /> of trouble? I'll appreciate your guide on this. I have no problem changing the license again. <br /> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">-- <br />============================<br /> Gustav Gonzalez<br /> <a href="mailto:xtingray@gmail.com"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">xtingray@gmail.com</span></a><br />============================</p>
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