Re: Relicensing Nautilus to GPLv3+

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> That's fine. The license of the compound work just has to be compatible
> with the individual files' licenses, it doesn't need to be the exact
> same one.
> For example, you can have a project mixing GPLv2+, GPLv3+ and BSD
> licensed files, and choose to have the compound work be GPLv3+. That
> also tells contributors that any new files in the project should be
> compatible with that overall license.

I’m not claiming it doesn’t work. I’m just pointing it effectively
means the files haven’t switched licenses, which is what was intended.
nautilus-main.c and others still are under GPLv2+ and one can use them
under GPLv2 if they so choose.

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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director