21.09.2014 05:55, Bart Oldeman пишет:
> Stas Sergeevwrote:
>
>     Eric Auer wrote:
>     >> change is to allow contributing under "GPLv2 or later".
>     > Did any other DOSEMU experts have a strong opinion
>     > about this? Or did people not care which of the two
>     > variants should be used, except for Bart who prefers
>     > the old variant?
>
>
> Eric, you can see other Eric's (Biederman) replies in the archives here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/dosemu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/index.html#00333
>
> I mostly agree with him, and he was involved in DOSEMU before me so 
> knows slightly more about that history before.
OK, Eric's concerns are addressed, patch applied:
https://sourceforge.net/p/dosemu/code/ci/cc971eae4738016c22b3d2e1b3473df2176c8e29

> IANAL but I suspect that somebody can fork the Linux kernel and remove 
> that text just as you can fork dosemu
Should I really do that? :(
A big pain for all users and distributors...
But we need to get off from that point, one way or another.

> However nobody can relicense the kernel or DOSEMU from GPLv2 to "GPLv2 
> or later"
But I can, thanks to GPL faq (if I do the fork, of course).
What stops you from doing so, was never clarified.

> or "GPLv3" or "GPLv3 or later"
Indeed, this is not possible.

> So I am in favour of keeping our language, maybe clarify it a bit.
Me too, the clarification is now in devel.
Of course without any "Linus did the same, we allow dynamic linking
and interpret GPL over what is written" blabbering *shudder*, but its 
still there.
What else needs to be done to get us any further for the merge?

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