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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:16:37 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Matthieu Moy <address@hidden>
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > > From: Rob Weir <address@hidden>
> > > Do you have reason to believe that future revisions will be
> > > incompatible with the GNU GPL, version 2?
> > Doesn't it seem virtually certain?
> > V3 can either add or remove restrictions on copying, modification,
> > redistribution, and use. Neither adding or removing such restrictions
> > is permitted by V2 itself.
> GPL compatible doesn't mean that GPL software can be relicenced under
> this licence. It means you can make a derived work containing both
> this licence and the GPL.
> The BSD licence is GPL compatible, and is less restrictive than the
> GPL.
> If GPL v3 looks like the BSD (which I'm sure won't happen ;-), then,
> GPL v3 will be compatible with GPL v2, removing some restrictions.
I suppose that you're right in a strange technical sense. V3 could be
written as, for example, the version of the BSD license without the
obnoxious advertising clause. As a result, there'd be no problem
mixing either V2+ code or V2-only code with V3 code.
However, all extant v2+ code would, by publishing such a v3, instantly
become non-copyleft code. "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html"
should give a sense of why, should v3 have that form, I'll be first in
line to join the class-action suit against the FSF seeking, among
other things, an immediate injunction declaring V3 invalid and
inoperative and an immediate revocation of the FSF's status as a
non-profit organization.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, James Blackwell, 2004/03/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, James Blackwell, 2004/03/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrien Beau, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Rob Weir, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Tom Lord, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Ollivier Robert, 2004/03/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Andrew Suffield, 2004/03/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Matthieu Moy, 2004/03/23
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Front page to wiki now modifiable again, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/22