From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 46896 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2016 22:55:58 -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 46799 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jan 2016 22:55:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:947, H*r:qmail-ldap-1.03, collins, Collins X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:55:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 20373 invoked by uid 13447); 21 Jan 2016 22:55:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 21 Jan 2016 22:55:53 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+ From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <20160121104928.GA30823@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:55:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20160121104928.GA30823@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen w= rote: >=20 > does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? > If nobody complains, I'll bump to v3+ in a week or so. Can you actually do that, legally? I thought the copyright assignments onl= y applied to the DLL, not to setup.exe, so all setup.exe contributors retai= ned their copyright. That=E2=80=99s what I was told by cgf back when I did my assignment prior t= o contributing some work to the tar handling, way back when Robert Collins = was the lead on the project. cgf said I didn=E2=80=99t need to go to that = trouble after I=E2=80=99d already sent it in. 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#GPLv3_separates_= community_further What actual problem are you trying to solve with the change?