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So every contributor essentially gets to vote on the license change, and their vote is proportional to the contribution they made (because if they vote no, thei
by comice 14y ago
So every contributor essentially gets to vote on the license change, and their vote is proportional to the contribution they made (because if they vote no, their contributed code has to be rewritten).
I think I quite like it, but only because there is an option to replace their code if they vote no (which admittedly may be very technically difficult). No single contributor can truly veto the license change.
Clearly has it's downsides though.
- jbk 14y agoI did delete some code, and rewrote some. But not for many people.
- comice 14y agoWas there any single person with enough of a contribution that if they'd said no, you'd have abandoned the idea of a license change?
- jbk 14y agoYes, a lot of them. VLC contributions have mainly been done by 2 dozens of persons. If any of Rémi Denis-Courmont, Laurent Aimar, Gildas Bazin, Pierre d'Herbemont, Rafaël Carré (or me) would have disagreed, I would have stopped right away.
- keeperofdakeys 14y agoImagine trying to do this for something like the linux kernel, it would be nearly impossible.