On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? > If nobody complains, I'll bump to v3+ in a week or so.
Can you actually do that, legally? I thought the copyright assignments only applied to the DLL, not to setup.exe, so all setup.exe contributors retained their copyright. That’s what I was told by cgf back when I did my assignment prior to contributing some work to the tar handling, way back when Robert Collins was the lead on the project. cgf said I didn’t need to go to that trouble after I’d already sent it in. I can’t say I’m wild about GPLv3, for reasons which don’t have to be rehashed here, being well-documented already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#GPLv3_separates_community_further What actual problem are you trying to solve with the change?
