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Re: Relicence of Debian Installer components under GPLv3 or v2+?



Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I'm just sitting at the annual Samba conference, listening to
> B. Kuhn's talk about GPL enforcement and v2/v3 issues (samba is known
> to be the first major project to move to GPLv3). 
> 
> So, well, just a random idea: would it be such a weird idea to try
> moving the licence for various D-I components to either GPLv3 or "v2+"
> (v2 and above)?
> 
> What would be the stance of those of us who contributed code in
> various D-I packages?
> 
> Mine is actually: I'm perfectly OK with moving the licence of all
> components I contributed code to, to GPLv3.

So am I. FWIW, the majority of components are already licensed version 2
or higher. These are licensed v2 only:

tzsetup
udpkg
base-installer
installation-guide
clock-setup
finish-install
localechooser
network-console
palo-installer
partman-multipath
s390-dasd
zipl-installer
etch-support
lenny-support
sarge-support

-- 
see shy jo

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