From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98703 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2016 16:54:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 98687 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jan 2016 16:54:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-92.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KHOP_DYNAMIC,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_PBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=warren, Young, Warren, Maintainer X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from ipbcc05c50.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (188.192.92.80) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:54:20 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 03B40A803A7; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:54:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:54:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+ Message-ID: <20160122165417.GA23147@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20160121104928.GA30823@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1598 On Jan 21 15:55, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen = wrote: > >=20 > > does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? > > If nobody complains, I'll bump to v3+ in a week or so. >=20 > Can you actually do that, legally? I thought the copyright > assignments only applied to the DLL, not to setup.exe, so all > setup.exe contributors retained their copyright. I'm not trying to do that single-handedly and without reason. I'm asking here to reach out to the current active developers. A switch from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ works without having to reach out to *all* copyright holder. The current active devs are sufficient, this is one of the advantages of the '+' in GPLvX+. > I can=E2=80=99t say I=E2=80=99m wild about GPLv3, for reasons which don= =E2=80=99t have to be > rehashed here, being well-documented already: GPLv3 is a nice license, IMHO. I don't agree with Linus on that call. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#GPLv3_separate= s_community_further >=20 > What actual problem are you trying to solve with the change? A certain mail to the cygwin ML might require some action. The action is most thorougly (and quickly) done by pulling in some code from the Cygwin DLL. But Cygwin is under v3+, so it's incompatible with the current v2+ in Setup. That's why I'd like to bump version. Does that make it more tolerable? Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWol65AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g9XkP/RirbutrZ1QwBg8B2n4XkCsj PbeIGnsZ3qfkA0ErehKi6EvLhNh/gRKb5Z7kDsxB6Yv9NBZx+j4b18xDMjr4y9cM q3NwOOy7DkU7gDvAF5z0UjiblXofEVTOXi5vBHekKWB6TCzgM4OomCF463ZyEMlc iOHJVvJJqAarF/reMb9nQ7KbDpibwpDjCO+L55y553c7K/kEWVmDIxvBm4c+ZYru JGrW5wxOZjDnNY2w0J49Q+QZhEHPnSzE5GOdPYnAGdoNR5gPKwVFCq0e8c7WF8ge xkN6f9WX93VeSztxxbUR0JaNboMQmqDlLwgQRMKxrB1wsMKw1PJJ0Q+9kXDF6i5g H6jd+nrfv7JyNUi4G3chs5h4uYpHZ04NKRz5P7hI595onLsGicGMQxtdIfXqSrZf LNa3rx5BqFp7XLTVPajPx/IIxL5nuCsVLhCDK0bKA16EPwlU2Mp6i15yGjAx92dE QgkVfXmOvY9kh6/XMljW7kJGv9Cc4/u/Fu1z4u5D+1j+MpgUWaey0Wf9v95amOCx DXqYR5WRSmYMx28sBfUA4sPd5txqOxj7dy+tdRguVO3F9rC0QJrkYDErvxRrk6CS Ht2bLYt9XaPlvGETNm1GyWLgW2RoDZZEy5PzZ0IwH/GQVg24LJp9uoMPh9kyFnlr SMRVhBJ8UI1XnVPD/j7O =x/SL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA--