From 9325c52067db342d1360cbbbdf0cb2087d0a9a09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:33:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the GPL upgrades policy a bit, and propose an addition The proposed addition is that if the current ELinks maintainer likes GPLv3, he might have the right to relicence all the default GPLv2-only contributions to GPLv3. Please state your opinions etc. --- COPYING | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 7f981ed8..7d2a85a4 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ Note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as ELinks is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 -or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. +or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly stated otherwise. That is at +least the policy for all pasky's contributions and the default - if you +want different policy for your patches, the best way to state it is by +a patch for your AUTHORS entry. + +If pasky likes GPLv3, he might relicence his contributions for GPLv3 +as well. The default policy should probably be that you trust pasky, +Jonas, or the current maintainer of the day to do the right thing (much +like it is in the Linux kernel). But this needs to be yet worked out +and agreed upon. -----------------------------------------------------------------------