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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>We talked about this very, very briefly on the PSC - and I can
already say that the topic is quite controversial within the PSC.</p>
<p>I really don't see consensus here at the moment. And even if the
PSC wants to move in this direction, it is the voting members who
need to agree to it - and I personally doubt that a majority of
them would agree. The PSC (or any voting or community member) can
suggest such changes, but it is the voting members who decide/vote
on it.<br>
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<p>@Nyall - if you want to raise such a voting, you are welcome to
do so. But it needs a proper listing of pros and cons of such a
move - and need to be prepared to give both sides (the proponents
and the opponents of such a change) a fair chance to raise their
arguments.</p>
<p>There are other open source projects that did such changes - so
it seems to be possible. But there is a fair chance that it will
create a lot of harm along the process (e.g. split the community
into two parts).</p>
<p>Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.11.18 um 09:06 schrieb Alessandro
Pasotti:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson
<<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com"
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Your concerns are very valid, but could we defer this to a
different<br>
discussion? I really want to avoid this becoming an
us-vs-apple/debate<br>
about the merit of specific licenses, and instead allow it
to focus<br>
solely on the question: "should the qgis org, with all the
checks and<br>
balances it has in place, have the power to relicense the
QGIS<br>
codebase (or not)"?.<br>
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Nyall<br>
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<div>I'm -1 on this proposal, it's not that I don't trust the
PSC (that have always done an amazing job!), but perhaps
because I'm Italian, I never fully trust the "government", to
me the GPL license is like the constitution and it's there to
protect from the possible abuses from the "government".</div>
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<div>Also, I particularly didn't like the "(8. Replace existing
code from any non-signing contributors)", it sounds like "you
don't like that? We don't need you".</div>
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data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Alessandro Pasotti<br>
w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.itopen.it</a></div>
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