What do you think of changing the license to Apache 2.0? about gcviewer

[vlsi]

Any thoughts, @chewiebug ?

[hendriks73]

You cannot simply change the license for old code.

People have contributed to GCViewer under specific terms—this includes the license. IMO, the very least you'd have to do, is to ask all contributors (for example via mentions) for their agreement to a license switch within a certain period of time (for example, allow one month to answer) and if nobody disagrees within this period, do the switch then.

To ensure a smoother license switch next time, you might want to add contribution guidelines that clearly state that contributors must accept license changes.

That said, as the original author of CGViewer, I'd be perfectly fine with a switch to Apache 2.0.

[vlsi]

Thanks for the clarification, and I understand relicensing is hard.
However, someone should initiate the procedure if that is desirable at all.

Otherwise, people would move to MIT-licensed https://github.com/microsoft/gctoolkit.