Roger, thank you! We will go ahead with that then. Best, Luke On 01/25/2017 04:51 PM, Roger Binns wrote:

On 25/01/17 07:28, Lukas Erlacher wrote:

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I joined baldurmen/pollo and ook as maintainer of ISBG and we would now like to change the license from your "whatever OSI license" statement to GPLv3 so it can be packaged - pollo would like to package it for debian.

You are correct in that you can just fork, claim any OSI license and are good. I haven't used isbg in 15 years so I think the current maintainers opinions matter most - whatever you think works best.

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I understand the logic of that theory but I find it a little bit dubious - licenses like "WTFPL" are often seen as not being a legally valid license at all,

For my APSW project the license body is as liberal as I could find (PNG) with the "or whatever OSI license at your option" added. The goal was to remove as much license friction as possible. So PNG is there to keep people happy who want an explicit license, while others can pick and choose.

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therefore I would like to ask for your explicit blessing to make the project GPLv3.

Yes, you have my blessing to make the project GPLv3. I also recommend that the current maintainers no longer take my opinions into consideration, and do whatever they consider appropriate in the future.

Roger