Greets :) A couple points of clarification:
On Wed 14 Jul 2010 21:45, Christian Persch <[email protected]> writes: > [In] copyright assignment, you don't have *any* guarantees about the > terms the new 'owner' may choose to distribute your work under. Not true! For example, when you assign to the FSF, the papers you sign contain a number of guarantees. From an old version of the assignment papers (you should contact the FSF if you are considering using this language, as it might have been updated): 4. FSF agrees that all distribution of the Works, or of any work "based on the Works", or the Program as enhanced by the Works, that takes place under the control of FSF or its agents or successors, shall be on terms that explicitly and perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute copies of the work to anyone on the same terms. These terms shall not restrict which members of the public copies may be distributed to. These terms shall not require a member of the public to pay any royalty to FSF or to anyone else for any permitted use of the work they apply to, or to communicate with FSF or its agents or assignees in any way either when redistribution is performed or on any other occasion. > Also, even if you do consider "or later versions" a significant > risk, you should note that you've *already taken* this risk by using > LGPL2.1-only, since LGPL2.1 allows using the work under GPL2 or any > later version of the GPL. Interesting, I was not aware of this. From the LGPLv2.1: 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. To do this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, instead of to this License. (If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you wish.) Do not make any other change in these notices. The LGPLv3 does not have that parenthetical statement. I don't know if that changes things. Josselin mentions the risks that might arise in specifying an "or later" license. They are real, but can be mitigated via the proxy clause in the (L)GPLv3. If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the GNU General Public License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Program. Happy hacking, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
