"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And doesn't the GPL contain a promise that any future GPL will be > identical in spirit to the original?
It uses the phrase "similar in spirit", which has yet to be given an exact definition. >>Of course, this assumes you actually want to take the matter to court... an >>act often prohibitively expensive for most FOSS developers... but then >>again, most of this conversation is academic anyway because it assumes people >>will actually dislike v3 AND that there is infringement ABD that the >>infringement is authorized under v3 but not v2. > > If the new GPL breaks that promise, then the original licensor has a > very good case in law that the new GPL is *not* a "later" version, but > a "different" version to which the "or later" wording doesn't apply... That would be a, maybe not desirable, but at least very interesting case. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
