[QGIS-Developer] iOS prototyping

[Andreas Neumann]

However, if we just talk about moving from GPL v2 to v3 - I think this 
would definitely be possible.

A change to a more permissive license is a different thing. There you 
need really, really good arguments to convince the majority of the 
voting members, I think.

Please don't see this as a PSC opinion - it is my own, personal opinion, 
and as I said, the PSC doesn't have an official "opinion" yet on this topic.

Greetings,

Andreas

Am 09.11.18 um 09:21 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
>
> Hi,
>
> We talked about this very, very briefly on the PSC - and I can already 
> say that the topic is quite controversial within the PSC.
>
> 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.
>
> @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.
>
> 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).
>
> Andreas
>
>
> Am 09.11.18 um 09:06 schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     Your concerns are very valid, but could we defer this to a different
>>     discussion? I really want to avoid this becoming an
>>     us-vs-apple/debate
>>     about the merit of specific licenses, and instead allow it to focus
>>     solely on the question: "should the qgis org, with all the checks and
>>     balances it has in place, have the power to relicense the QGIS
>>     codebase (or not)"?.
>>
>>     Nyall
>>
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> -- 
>> Alessandro Pasotti
>> w3: www.itopen.it <http://www.itopen.it>
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