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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>thanks for this discussion. I'm also pretty sure getting a
property transfer from all developers will be difficult if not
impossible (quite a few devs even disappeared from the radar, not
easy to find them again).</p>
<p>A possible intermediate step would be to:</p>
<p>* get the transfer of code property to QGIS.ORG only from those
developers who are happy to do it</p>
<p>* ask a more specific question to others (e.g. are you willing to
move from GPL2 to GPL3?).</p>
<p>I think this is more feasible, will help building trust, will
help moving forward, and will make it easier (less people to
contact) to do further changes in the future.</p>
<p>All the best.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/9/18 9:31 AM, Andreas Neumann
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<p>However, if we just talk about moving from GPL v2 to v3 - I
think this would definitely be possible.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.11.18 um 09:21 schrieb Andreas
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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
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:52 AM Nyall Dawson
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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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<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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