[Koha] Koha license upgrade voting method

Reed Wade reedwade at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 01:15:07 UTC 2011


Feels like we're thinking way too hard about this. It might simplify
things to look directly at our situation instead of getting too
clever.

We're at GPL2. Options are:

  - stay there
  - move to GPL3
  - move to AGPL3
  - some other scenarios that I don't think have been proposed by
anyone other than as a "we could..."

>From what I can tell, moving to GPL3 is not contentious.

>From what I can tell, moving to AGPL3 is mostly not contentious but
has some strong minority opposition.

So, would a meaningful vote be:

  - yes/no I approve of moving to GPL3
  - yes/no I approve of moving to AGPL3

And we could even set the bar pretty high for acceptance (? 80% approval).

This assumes my 'From what I can tells' are correct.

The proportional voting schemes seem to make more sense if we're
looking for more than one outcome--which we aren't. -- unless we want
to have a certain percentage of the code under one license or the
another, that would be kind of cool (no, I'm joking here, don't do
that).

-reed



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