License for 4.4

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Hi Botsie

Biju Chacko wrote:
> 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.

I'm afraid I fail to understand why we should do such a move. When I
started coding, I knew what I choose as a license, and I knew the "or
later" clause, there is nothing new here. So why should we change now?

> 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.

I am definitely *not* a lawyer, and I am very far from understanding how
legal things work. That's probably why I did not write my own license
and trust the FSF to do that for me. So far nothing has changed, and I
still don't get what could be wrong with GPL3.

So, for now, from my point of view, I see no reason to change anything
in the licensing of the code I wrote or contributed.

If someone can convince me that GPL3 is such a very bad thing that I
need to "fork" my own code, then I could change my mind, but for now...

Cheers,
Olivier.
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