Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?)

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 6 January 2011 13:40, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  6-Jan-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | Octave's long history may make
> | this harder, but the GPLv2->GPLv3 was apparently possible.
>
> That was easy, because the original license was always GPLv2 or later.
>
> Or are you saying that to switch to GPLv3 or later, we needed
> permission from everyone anyway?

No, I guess I forgot the original was "or later".

In that case, switching to copyright assignment right now is probably
going to be damn near impossible. It's very likely at least a few
contributors are dead by now.

- Jordi G. H.