License for 4.4

[Bernhard Walle]

Hello,

* Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org> [2007-01-05 08:19]:
> 
> I think we should change the text of all GPL licensed components in XFCE 
> to GPL v2 only. This will allow us to move to GPL3 once we see a 
> consensus in the community to move to GPL3. Otherwise we will be 
> automatically switched when GPL3 is released.

No, nothing is "automatically switched". Xfce stays GPLv2, the "or
later" clause only means that somebody can re-license it under GPLv3
which basically means that he is able to include the source code in a
GPLv3 project.

> I don't want to get into a license flamewar, but in my opinion we should 
> only move to GPL3 when several other big projects have done so. I don't 
> think any of us know enough about it, but I think it would be safer to 
> go along with the majority of the community is doing.

Although I personally like the idea of GPLv2 only, I think that's not
possbile. Xfce contains patches from many contributors, and you cannot
change the license later without having acknowledges of every single
contributor.


Regards,
Bernhard
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