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Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

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On 16/07/17 12:47, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> May I ask, in passing, why Debian (for packages like apt, say) as well as Linux
> did not switch to GPLv3?  Would such switch ease enforcement?

Switching a project over from GPLv2-only to GPLv3-only or GPLv3-or-later 
requires either (a) the consent of all copyright holders who made 
non-trivial contributions or (b) the wholesale replacement of all 
material written by the non-consenting copyright holders.

Thus, for any project which does not require contributors to sign a 
document either ceding their copyright in their contributions to the 
project's proprietor or granting said proprietor authority to relicence, 
it can be *really hard* to make such a transition in a lawful and timely 
manner (and one sufficiently-important non-consentor can basically shoot 
down the entire proposal).

In the particular case of the Linux kernel, *Linus* didn't want to move 
to GPLv3 (because he didn't think certain clauses were a good idea), so 
the move was a dead letter almost from the moment it was proposed.

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            Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2017-07-16 13:50 +0200
              Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2017-07-16 17:20 +0200
                Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2017-07-19 13:20 +0200
                Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2017-07-19 23:20 +0200
                Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2017-07-20 14:10 +0200
                Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-20 22:20 +0200
                Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement. Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2017-07-21 20:40 +0200
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