Dear relax developers,
I am planning on moving the full relax code base from the GPL v2
licence to the new version 3. Although the current licence allows
this to be automatically done, I would like to ask anyone with a
copyright notice in relax if they approve or disapprove of such a
move. This will make no difference to how relax is currently
developed, distributed, and used. There are two main reasons I would
like to make the change:
- The first is for the better worldwide design of the licence. The
GPL2 licence is more tailored for the US legal system, whereas GPL3
was designed more with a world audience in mind.
- The second is web interfaces and a relax web service. If a web
interface for relax is designed, in line with the GUI design, and
Gary's multi-processor code is used on a cluster for the back end,
then the person developing this could profit from relax without
contributing back. As the code is not distributed, under the GPL2
they need not release their improvements to relax. So all of our hard
work could be taken and somebody who did not do much would receive
credit and citations for it.
Most of the other licence differences are insignificant for relax. If
you could respond, it would be much appreciated. Cheers.
Edward
P. S. I would also like to ask again about http://nmr-relax.com email
addresses (x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). I asked a while ago
(https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-devel/2008-09/msg00004.html), but I
still have 97 free email addresses. These are available to accepted
relax developers, and can be used to better filter relax emails from
the mailing lists, etc. Just simply come up with an address (i.e.
edward att nmr-relax dott com) and tell me an email address to forward
to.
Migration of relax to GPL3.