Colin == Colin McMillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Colin it's not inconceivable that 20-30 years down the road, FSF
Colin might have a leader that wouldn't be immune to, say, a
Colin several-million dollar bribe from $BIG_CORP that then calls
Colin the shots and releases a GPL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose that someone wished to create a program using darcs and also using code
under the CPL or EPL licences. Suppose that this program were released under a
Free Software license, and suppose that the components of the program which
were derived from darcs were under
Kannan Goundan wrote:
Isn't the CPL also a copyleft license? Wouldn't it be possible for the GPLv3 to
remain copyleft but also be compatible with the CPL?
OMIF, sorry. Apparently the incompatibility is on the issue of patent
encumbrance, which in this case makes the GPL more free.
--
You obviously never talked to RMS :-)
;-)
Indeed. I did not seriously intend to suggest that darcs developers should
drop the or any later version clause.
For what it is worth, I have talked to RMS. I enjoyed the conversation. Among
my small victories in life, I persuaded RMS and Guido van
Colin McMillen wrote:
This is why I never use the or any later version clause in any
software I release. Sure, it may seem a bit paranoid, but I don't see
any substantial reason why the clause is there in the first place. If
the FSF comes up with a new, improved version X of the GPL that
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:43:46PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colin McMillen wrote:
This is why I never use the or any later version clause in any
software I release. Sure, it may seem a bit paranoid, but I don't see
any substantial reason why the clause is there in the first
* Kannan Goundan:
Aside: Has anyone wondered what would happen if someone (say, MS) gradually
infiltrated the FSF and created a permissive GPLv4?
Yes, but everybody would simply license further improvements under
GPLv2 only, so this isn't a huge deal, really.
Some clauses in the copyright
--- Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Kannan Goundan:
Aside: Has anyone wondered what would happen if someone (say, MS)
gradually infiltrated the FSF and created a permissive GPLv4?
Yes, but everybody would simply license further improvements under
GPLv2 only, so this isn't a
