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Re: file licenses

 

GPL2+ Already includes GPL3+, i see no reason to change it up aside from
preventing code reuse by other projects. The whole of KiCad as it is cannot
be redistributed under
anything other than GPL version 3 at the moment.

- Jose

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>  Since the source code is currently a mix of GPL2+ and GPL3+,
> is there any advantage to getting agreement to change the text
> to GPL3+? There are 154 files which I'm still sole author of, so
> changing the text on those is trivial. Problems can come up if
> it's not clear who the authors are or we can't get in touch with
> one of the authors of a file.
>
> - Cirilo
>
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