Re: [Nano-devel] updates, and relicensing questions...

[Jordi Mallach]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:23:14AM -0400, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> It makes sense to relicense if there is some kind of benefit to be had.  To 
> relicense just for the sake of relicensing makes no sense.  If you do 
> decide to go this route I may just fork the current Nano release and keep 
> my fork under GPLv3 as I see no benefit what so ever to have from GPLv3.

Roberto, nano is a GNU project, and GNU projects are going to move to
the GPL3 sooner or later. If we haven't brought this issue up on the
list a bit earlier is because we're probably all too busy, but it
certainly was on my agenda to discuss this.

The GPL3 is overall a better license than its predecessor. Why do you
threat with a fork? What's on the new licence that you can't stand?
Do you realise in a few months most of the GNU components will be under
this licence? Will you fork coreutils, tar, cpio, make, nano, compilers,
and all?

Just wondering,
Jordi
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