[openlp-dev] Re-license OpenLP to GPL3

Philip Ridout phill.ridout at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 03:18:35 EDT 2018


Yes

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, 08:07 googol, <googol at posteo.de> wrote:

> Okay with me
>
> Am 10.10.18 um 17:03 schrieb Raoul Snyman via openlp-dev:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We have a new developer in our community, Bastian. Welcome! Bastian has
> > been looking into some things that I've had on my mind, but not had an
> > opportunity to actually spend some time on.
> >
> > One of the things Bastian has been doing recently is a license audit of
> > OpenLP and all the libraries we use. In doing so, Bastian found that
> > while OpenLP is currently GPL2, some libraries (such as PyQt5) are GPL3.
> > Unfortunately, GPL2 and GPL3 are not compatible. I'd been contemplating
> > investigating it, but I've had other priorities.
> >
> > So, I'm going to e-mail all the contributors to OpenLP and ask them if
> > we can re-license OpenLP under the GNU General Public License version 3.
> > Please reply to that e-mail with a "Yes" if you're OK to re-license, or
> > a "No" if you disagree with re-licensing.
> >
> > Thank you Bastian for your work!
> >
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