Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV Flow

[Sam Geeraerts]

Luis Alberto Guzmán García wrote:
> El jue, 10-04-2008 a las 20:22 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió:
> > What would you do if he says "oh wait, I actually meant the 
> > CDDL"? Technically the GPL would still apply because it cannot be 
> > revoked, but in order to not piss off the copyright holder you would 
> > remove it.
> If in any case any copyright holder try to change from one license to
> another then he has to notify to the competente authority and let the
> whole Free Software community know that his/her software is not free.
>
> And in that case, it must and should be removed from any distro that
> respects their users freedom.
>
> More than just teaching developers to be more explicit, this would
> really mean that gNS handles only free software, we can support it up
> with the developers (copyright holders) word.
>
> This is the final goal that i attempted to achieve but maybe is too much
> trouble :/

Once released as GPL, the code will always be GPL. If the copyright 
holder doesn't like that, too bad. The only thing he can do is 
re-release it under another license, but then the GPL version will still 
be available.

It's nice for gNewSense to have the developer's support, but it's not 
necessary. If a copyright holder wants to change the license and the 
discussion about it turns ugly, it could be decided on a case by case 
basis wether or not to remove the code. Contacting the copyright holder 
yourself instead of letting them come to you just might give one of them 
funny ideas, thereby increasing the chance of triggering such a 
dicussion. You are of course free to do as you like when confronted with 
such cases. I just don't think it should be a necessary part of the flow.

It's good to have these things cleared up to have a nicely documented 
verification method. Your flow chart is a considerable contribution to 
that. I think it will come in handy to clearly represent outcomes of 
possible future discussions on this list.