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We changed the license[1] of a project which had 10 contributors, and we got every single one of them to do an Acked-by (by email) which took some weeks. That
by rwmj 3y ago
We changed the license[1] of a project which had 10 contributors, and we got every single one of them to do an Acked-by (by email) which took some weeks. That was on the advice of our lawyers. Can't imagine the impossible hassle of doing the same for something like Linux.
[1] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775ed8879bf0b2cb9df3d9044 https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775...
- yellowapple 3y agoAnd that's assuming that all the contributors are even alive in the first place; unless you've got a Ouija board handy, you're gonna have one hell of a time changing Linux's license.
- justincormack 3y agoIt has been done for some fairly large projects, eg openssl managed to swith to Apache for 3.0. It is a lot of work.
- maccard 3y agoCan't speak for Linux, but got a few projects I've contributed to I've had to sign a CLA which negates that problem (but causes the one in this thread)