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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Tim,<br>
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As per license disclaimer in qgis.cpp:<br>
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so anyone could fork the entire source tree into GPL3 without
license problems.<br>
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I believe that only a decision needs to be made, without asking
all copyright holders in this case (moving to MIT or similar would
require that)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Angelos<br>
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On 07/25/2013 03:49 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Paolo Cavallini <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it"><cavallini@faunalia.it></a>wrote:
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Il 25/07/2013 01:11, Daniel ha scritto:
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About GPLv3, is there any advance in this issue
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3789">http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3789</a>?
We have discussed about this during the Valmiera meeting, without reaching
firm
conclusions. I would be in favour of moving to GPLv3, if feasible.
All the best.
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<pre wrap="">Changing the license would require getting agreement of every developer who
ever contributed to QGIS and removing / rewriting code from those that we
can't track down or that don't agree. I think there are a 1000 other better
things we could be spending our time doing....
Regards
Tim
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