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Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:55:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+
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- References: <20160121104928 dot GA30823 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
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> 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 only applied to the DLL, not to setup.exe, so all setup.exe contributors retained their copyright.
Thatâs what I was told by cgf back when I did my assignment prior to contributing some work to the tar handling, way back when Robert Collins was the lead on the project. cgf said I didnât need to go to that trouble after Iâd already sent it in.
I canât say Iâm wild about GPLv3, for reasons which donât 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?