Re: Uniformity - licenses

["Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 18:25, Jason Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:36, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 October 2010 21:49, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
>> > Hi;
>> >
>> > Am Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:09:07 +0200
>> > schrieb "Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>:
>> >> Gnome games is in many ways a messy module. I would like to have a
>> >> long term goal of making it more uniform.
>> >>
>> >> One thing is the differences in the license for each game/lib. Could
>> >> we agree on a goal to move towards a specific license? There seems to
>> >> already be a push towards GPL3+ (aisleriot, vala port of glchess).
>> >
>> > I've already changed all of my gnome modules to GPL 3+, so obviously I'm
>> > in favour of doing the same for gnome-games :)
>>
>> I'm happy to comply with a standard GPL license - no particular
>> preference which one.
>
> No preferences here either but we would need to get approval from all people
> whom have copyright claims in our code. That turns out to be quite a few
> people.

I was mostly thinking about newly written/rewritten code - relicensing
is probably not worth it if we need lots of peoples permission.