[Buildbot-devel] buildbot and GPL (move to MIT?)

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
>  That said, I'm ok to using any OSI approved license not conflicting
>  with the ones of the projects buildbot depends on. This is sufficient
>  for buildbot to stay in Fedora repos, which is what I'm primarily
>  interested in.

I don't have a strong preference, but keeping with GPLv2 has the
advantage of putting the application in a pool with a lot of other
applications with which it can share code fairly freely.  Also, I
think you would need permission from all of the contributors to change
to anything but GPLv3.

Given that nobody has a good reason* not to use GPLv2, I vote for the
status quo.

Dustin

*I agree with Dossy: the idea that *using* GPL code is somehow viral
is not a good reason, although IANAL either.

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