Re: Suggested migration to GPLv3

Peter Åstrand a écrit :
> 
>> I'm curious about the process: why not just having the rdesktop authors
>> contacted and agree for the GPLv2->GPLv3 license upgrade? I think it'd
>> be enough to do that change, but I may be wrong, and that's why I'm
>> asking.
> 
> It is actually not necessary to contact (every) author. Since all
> authors have agreed to v2+, they have already accepted v3.

Didn't know about that.

> The change to v3 can be done just like any other code change, but since
> the license is fairly fundamental, at least the project administrators
> should agree. Being a community project, I also think it's important
> that all developers, both those with Subversion write access as well as
> others, have a chance to comment.

Information is important, agreed.

Thx,

	G.
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