[Bf-committers] GPLv3 Released (for license gurus).

[Martin Poirier]

Hi,

--- GSR <gsr.b3d at infernal-iceberg.com> wrote:

> cbarton at metavr.com (2007-07-01 at 2351.32 +1000):
> > Personally Im happy to stick with v2 and see no
> advantage in changing.
> > But if the consensus was that there was an
> advantage in changing to 
> > share code with other projects (like moonlight3d)
> Id be okay about 
> > moving to v3 also.
> 
> Moving... do people realize Blender files (many?
> all? 'grep -rI "of
> the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> The Blender"
> source/* | wc -l' returns around 2400) have the
> following two lines:
> 
>  * as published by the Free Software Foundation;
> either version 2
>  * of the License, or (at your option) any later
> version. The Blender
> 
> v3 is being allowed already, so any discussion would
> be about changes
> like dropping v2 or disallowing later versions.
> There is nothing to
> ask about v3, it is explicitly stated that it can be
> redistributed
> under it (or the maybe never to be released v4,
> v5...), be it for
> compatibility issues or just cos a distributor wants
> to go with v3.

Yes, we allow later versions, but it would become a
problem if libraries we link with do not.

That's the major concern at the moment IMHO.

Martin


       
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