mercurial gpl license prevents adoption at eclipse.org ?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch 15 April 2009 19:10:51 schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman:
> On 15/04/2009 18:35, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > By the way: If I'd take the load of contacting every contributor and
> > asking if he'd allow licensing his contribution under GPLv2 or later,
> > would you allow relicensing of your parts under GPLv2+?
>
> http://mercurial.markmail.org/message/czzvjjsdmofvghl5?q=gplv3

He said the effort would be gigantic, so that's why I asked if it would be OK 
for him, if I did all the work. 

No need to read any status message or anything until all contributors to the 
current codebase said yes - the result would most probably just be a place to 
point people with GPLv3 questions to (help contacting all those. Before that 
nothing can happen -> no discussions anymore). But if I'd be able to reach all 
contributors (and if they agree), that would offer a whole host of new 
possibilities for Mercurial - and it's something where I feel competent to do 
a real contribution. 

I don't know if I'd be able to reach all, and I doubt that all would agree. 
Still I'd like to at least try to reach all (I *really* like the GPLv3 - 
especially the AGPL option) - but if Matt says no, it's not even worth writing 
a single email - I did a churn on the repo :). 

The proposal that someone else would do all the work wasn't there before (at 
least not in the discussions I read during the past 18 months), so I thought 
that this might change something - else I wouldn't have written it :)

Best wishes, 
Arne
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