License clarification

[throwaway1037]

Is the project licensed under GNU-GPL2-only or GNU-GPL2-or-later?

If the former, please may it be released under the latter?

Thank you very much.

[noughtmare]

It's GPL2-only, changing it would be quite an effort, because all contributors would have to agree.

[throwaway1037]

Please may we get the ball rolling on upgrading, even if it takes a while? I'd love to fork the project but GPL2-only, whilst a strong license, is relatively weak and vulnerable compared to GPL2-or-later.

[noughtmare]

Actually, I might be wrong. There is some more information on this issue: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi-rope/issues/10.

[throwaway1037]

Would I be correct in stating that the project is actually GPL2-or-later due to what the package metadata implied?

[throwaway1037]

Otherwise these appear to all be authors with the command git shortlog -s | cut -c8-: (Someone appears to be named the empty string.)

"Simon Winwood 'Daniel McAllansmith Adit Cahya Ramadhan Alan Zimmerman Aleksandar Dimitrov Alexander Stepanenko Alexander Vershilov Alexandr Ruchkin Alexey Levan Amy de Buitléir Anders Papitto Andres Loeh Andrew Myers Andy Gocke Anthony Quizon Art Ben Armston Ben Doyle Ben Moseley Benjamin Summers Benno Fünfstück Carter Charbonneau Corey O'Connor Cray Elliott Călin Ardelean Daniel Schoepe David Waern Deniz Dogan Dennis Griffith Dmitri Perunov Dmitry Ivanov Dominique Devriese Don Stewart Duncan Coutts Emily Backes Evan Martin Felix Martini Fraser Wilson Grégoire Hamish Mackenzie Henning Guenther Hi-Angel Ilya Smelkov Issac Trotts Jakub Arnold Jan Path Jared Hance Jarl Gunnar T. Flaten Jaro Reinders Jason Dagit Jean-Philippe Bernardy JeanPhilippe.bernardy@gmail.com Jeff Wheeler Jens Petersen Jeremy List Jeremy Wall (zaphar) John Ericson Jonathan Paugh Joseph Joseph Barratt Junji Hashimoto Kalman Noel Kevin Quick Kjetil Ørbekk Krzysztof Goj Louis Bettens Maciej Piechotka Malte Sommerkorn Mariano Casco Mark Wright Mateusz Kowalczyk Michael Dagitses Michal J. Gajda Michał J. Gajda Moritz Kiefer NGK Sternhagen Nicolas Pouillard Niil Paul Paulo Tanimoto Pavel Grafov Philip Kranz Reiner Pope Ricardo Wurmus Richard Goulter Robert Hensing Robin Green Rudi Grinberg Ryan Desfosses Ryan Scott Samuel Bronson Sergei Trofimovich Siddhanathan Shanmugam Sjur G. Karevoll Soham Chowdhury Spencer Janssen Stefan O'Rear Suleiman Souhlal Taral Tatyana Lomonosova The Gitter Badger Thomas Schilling Tuncer Ayaz Tuomo Valkonen Wayne Warren Wen Pu Yang Zhang Zapf@students.uni-marburg.de a.d.clark@ed.ac.uk aconbere@conbere.org aiya000 alson@alsonkemp.com andekar@student.chalmers.se andersk84@gmail.com andrii.z@gmail.com andy@nobugs.org arenl bartavelle ben@moseley.name berdario cgibbard@gmail.com cirodrig@crhc.illinois.edu cognominal@gmail.com coreyoconnor@gmail.com deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com dnsl48 dons dons@ dons@cse.unsw.edu.au fiendfan1 grddev@gmail.com gwern0@gmail.com hamish.k.mackenzie@googlemail.com huangyi jbarratt jeanphilippe.bernardy@gmai.com jeanphilippe.bernardy@gmail.com jeff@nokrev.com jeffwheeler@gmail.com jetho jfoutz@gmail.com jwall@google.com kevin@sb.org kq1quick@gmail.com kr.angelov@chalmers.se kr.angelov@gmail.com lordbrain@riseup.net m.gubinelli@gmail.com m.niloc@gmail.com mgajda mjgajda@gmail.com mlang@delysid.org mpwp mwotton@gmail.com newsham@lava.net nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com niil nikklassen nominolo@gmail.com reinerp rustydc sasha.rush@gmail.com scottw@artesiancode.com sean.leather@gmail.com seliopou@cs.brown.edu shae@ScannedInAvian.com sjurberengal@gmail.com sjw@cse.unsw.edu.au steffen.siering@gmail.com stites tactics40@gmail.com tora@zonetora.co.uk unknown viraptor@gmail.com vivian.mcphail@paradise.net.nz vivid-synth