[sage-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Maxima license "GPL v.3 or later"?

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/1/08, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As I have mentioned in some other thread, even if most of the code is
>>  GPLv2+, there are files which are GPLv2 only:
>
> Yeah -- some of those are files which I created.
> I am willing to change those from GPL v2 to GPL nonspecific.
> About the others, I guess we will have to identify them and
> negotiate with each author. I've been meaning for a long time
> to do a license review sweep through all of the share stuff ---
> maybe now is as good a time as any.

Please do.  I did precisely this with Sage last year and it wasn't
quite as hard as you might think.  I got around 40 emails from people
specifically giving me permission to change license statements
on their files.    A lot of the coding and maintenance work you
do on Maxima is more difficult than this.

Many thanks for following this up.

 -- William