Relicense: we need your help! Part II

Posted by toma on November 25, 2007; This entry is filed under English.

At this moment we have received around 80 contributors permission to relicense from GPL2 to GPL2+ or GPL2/3. But there are 1700 contributors with a subversion account.

So again, I want to ask you to add your name to the four lists we have. Either on the techbase-site (which also contains more info), or via svn:


svn co svn+ssh://$user@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts
vi scripts/relicensecheck.pl & add your name to all the four lists (that is if you agree to all four options)
svn ci scripts -m "I agree to a relicense"

Really, it’s not more than a minute of work for you.

6 Comments

  1. David Johnson November 26th, 2007 at 04:46

    But not all SVN account holders have contributed GPL2 or GPL2+ code, but LGPL, BSD and other licensed code. Thus there is no need to relicense.

  2. Thorben November 26th, 2007 at 07:55

    Why not send out polite e-mails explaining the situation to everyone that has a svn account?

    You could also (in addition) write a mail on cvs-announce.

    What do you think?

  3. Tom Albers November 26th, 2007 at 09:42

    Might be true, but I wanted to keep the message short this time. It does not really harm and it might be usefull for the future.

  4. Tom Albers November 26th, 2007 at 09:42

    Yes, that will be the next step. This is just the start ;-)

  5. Anoniemoes November 25th, 2007 at 17:43

    “Really, it’s not more than a minure of work for you.”
    minute ;]

  6. Tom Albers November 25th, 2007 at 17:52

    changed ;-)