Re: RFH: GPLv3

2007-07-14 Thread Rob Brown
Robert Dewar wrote: >One could of course just take a blanket view that everything >on the site is, as of a certain moment, licensed under GPLv3 >(note you don't have to change file headers to achieve this, >the file headers have no particular legal significance in >any case). According to http://w

Re: RFH: GPLv3

2007-07-14 Thread Rob Brown
>Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Not until someone updates the txt. Which should happen quickly, >>> but if someone applies a GPLv3 patch to a previously GPLv2 branch, >>> the entire branch becomes GPLv3, whether the COPYING file was >>> updated or not.

Re: RFH: GPLv3

2007-07-13 Thread Rob Brown
ave an increased workload maintaining the separability of GPLv2 and GPLv3 code during the transition to the new license, and it would seem that the transition will take quite some time (years?), but I'm sure that they will develop procedures to make it manageable. Cheers, Rob Brown.