Hei short answer. If the current license contains the text "or later versions of the GPL X.X" then we can switch to V3. I think. But I need to do a bit of reading on fsf.org pages and in the source code license annotations.
stefan Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > Julien made an interesting request that we relicenze OpenJUMP under > the GPL version 3. I wanted to discuss this request in a separate > thread, because I think it is a very important discussion. > > My first question would be: Do we have the authority to relicense OpenJUMP? > > I would think this authority to relicense OpenJUMP would lie with > Vivid Solutions, and all of our contributors that maintain copyright > over there code. > > I believe this means we can't relicense OpenJUMP, even if we wanted > to. This is one disadvantage of allowing contributors to keep the > copyright to their patches/improvements to OpenJUMP. If we could get > Vivid Solutions to agree to relicense the JUMP code in OJ, we'd still > have to get agreements from all of our pass contributors. > > That is going to be tough. :] > > Comments? > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
