Re: Uniformity - licenses

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

>> 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.
>
> That's a bit of a problem, yes. I had assumed that all .h/.c/.cpp files
> in gnome-games had a proper GPL copyright header with the "or later"
> clause (which permits moving from GPL2+ to GPL3+), but now that I've
> looked it turns out that a lot of the games (at least mahjongg, gtali,
> gnobots, and gnect (for the velena engine)) don't have that. So this
> probably makes the proposed move to GPL3+ impossible for these games.

We could ask the authors for those games or do vala-rewrites (if we
choose to port some c-games to vala). For velena I think that we need
to find an easier ai anyway.