On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:54:47AM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > In a sense, you have more freedom with GPLv2 only. > I also don't want to impose my views on others.
I don't follow. GPL2+ means "GPL2 OR any later version". The logical disjunction in there is arbitrated by who receives the code, that is, your users. So GPL2+ gives to your users *all* the freedoms of GPL2 *plus* the alternative of opting for GPL3. If you don't want to impose your views on others, GPL2+ is really the only right choice here. If, on the other hand, you want to make a political statement on why GPL3 is a bad license (which is Linus' case) than you could want to go for "GPL2 only", but that is precisely imposing your views on others. Plus, on the pragmatic side, "GPL2 only" will inhibit both you and your users to mix GPL3 code with the Beancount code base. Linus doesn't care about this aspect because the Linux kernel is so important in the ecosystem that they have the de facto power to *force* others to relicense as GPL2-compatible just for being included in Linux. I doubt that this is currently the case for Beancount, although I do wish you that level of success :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20161120193817.fmnsq7ihiwz67my5%40upsilon.cc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
