Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Ian Barton wrote: >> I see Carsten has added a link to the GPL. However, I think it's worthwhile >> specifically saying which *version* of the GPL. >> >> This might seem a trivial matter. However, I am involved with another project >> where the maintainer moved the licence from GPL V2 to GPL V3, with the best >> of intentions. A large commercial company wanted to contribute considerable >> resources to the project, but they were unhappy with the V3 licence and >> wanted to continue with V2. As a result considerable effort was wasted in >> getting everyone who had contributed patches to the V3 version agreeing to >> them being "backported" to the V2 licence. > > Interesting. > > Being part of Emacs amost forces us to use 3.
I did that with org-info.js lately after reading a bit about GPL-3 and seeing this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5G7FU5j2Uc Sounds like it is good thing, even a neccessary one. Sebastian _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
