Change project licence?

[Leam Hall]

On 09/23/2017 05:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Kryptxy <kryptxy at protonmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you all! I opened a ticket about the same (on github).
>> I got response from most of them, and all are agreeing to the change.
>> However, one contributor did not respond at all. I tried e-mailing, but no
>> response.
>> Can I still proceed changing the licence? It has been more than a week since
>> the ticket was opened.
> 
> Nope. Contributions made under the GPL have a guarantee that they will
> only and forever be used in open source projects. You're trying to
> weaken that guarantee, so you have to get clear permission from
> everyone involved.
> 
> Unless you can show that the contributions in question are so trivial
> that there's no code that can be pinpointed as that person's, or you
> replace all that person's code, you can't proceed to relicense it
> without permission.

I'm with Chris on this one. You made a social, and in many places 
legally binding, agreement. Can't change it without everyone's agreement.

Like Chris said, evaluate the level of effort on the code. Wait, or 
replace. You will be happier when you take the honorable path.

Leam