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Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:35:08 +0200
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"Richard W.M. Jones" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I’m wondering about the asymptotic behavior of the current policy:
>> aren’t all modules going to be LGPLv2+ as time tends to +∞?
>
> Speaking as a gnulib *user* I would be happy to see this happen.

I can understand this.  However, Gnulib was initially written to serve
the GNU project and its philosophy.  Among the weak copyleft licenses, I
find that LGPLv3 better protects the freedom of users than LGPLv2, for
instance.

Ludo’.



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