Migrate Xonotic to GPLv3+ (i.e. remove GPLv2 license file, and no longer require GPLv2 compatible contributions). Note that our binaries for Linux and Windows are already GPLv3+ due to libgmp.
divVerent
PASSED
2:1(4 abstained, 29 didn't vote)
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User
Decision
Comment
Freddy
ABSTAIN
Antibody
YES
I have no problem w/ GPLv3. We should do it if it is easy.
divVerent
ABSTAIN
I'll abstain given I don't care that much. Another option could be a per-file migration, but that'd be quite confusing for contributors who'd have to check license of every file they touch. The migration, if we want to do it, can be done anytime given GPLv2+ gives us the right to do that; of course we'd still document that source files before <revision of the change> are still GPLv2.
MrBougo
NONE
(auto-abstain due to inactivity)
Nitroxis
NONE
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terencehill
NONE
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AllieWay
NONE
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Archer
NONE
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bitbomb
NONE
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BuddyFriendGuy
NONE
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CuBe0wL
NONE
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Debugger
NONE
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detrate
NONE
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Diomedes
NONE
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FruitieX
NONE
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GATTS
NONE
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IDWMaster
NONE
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JH0nny
NONE
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Jubilant
NONE
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kuniu
NONE
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Mario
NO
No advantages have come to light over this move, only potentially negative effects (someone pushing for AGPL might have an easier time without GPLv2)
martin--t
ABSTAIN
don't care either way, as long as we don't have to include headers or names of authors or years in every file, this stuff never gets updated anyway and it's what git is for
Melanosuchus
YES
GPLv3 has cleared some wording regarding compatibility with other licenses. And if we have to distribute it as GPLv3 anyway there's no reason to keep the sources on a different license than the binaries, which would only cause confusion.