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From: | Ian Barton |
Subject: | Re: [Orgmode] license item |
Date: | Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:59:32 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) |
Sebastian Rose wrote:
I see Carsten has added a link to the GPL. However, I think it's worthwhile specifically saying which *version* of the GPL.Isn't it so, that no license means "All Rights Reserved"? Not sure, bu I think in Germany it is... Anyway, if you receive Org-mode with emacs, it has just the same license as emacs.
This might seem a trivial matter. However, I am involved with another project where the maintainer moved the licence from GPL V2 to GPL V3, with the best of intentions. A large commercial company wanted to contribute considerable resources to the project, but they were unhappy with the V3 licence and wanted to continue with V2. As a result considerable effort was wasted in getting everyone who had contributed patches to the V3 version agreeing to them being "backported" to the V2 licence.
Ian.
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