[openlp-dev] Re-license OpenLP to GPL3

[Patrick Böker]

Yes, I'm fine with relicensing.

Patrick Böker (Zimmermann before that)


On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2018 17:03:45 CEST Raoul Snyman via openlp-dev wrote:
> 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!