Am Freitag, den 08.04.2011, 14:21 +0200 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: > * kreuzritter2000 -- Friday 08 April 2011: > > That's the reason why the "or later" clause is important, it can protect > > your intentions in the future. > > Or it can be completely against my intentions. Hard to say before I read > the text of the GPLv4, GPLv5 etc. I don't need a master who "protects my > intentions". If I realize that the license does no longer work, then I'll > change it. Note: *I* will change it. I don't see the need to let *others* > change the license of my work. > > m.
You can't change your license of your work when you're dead. Your work will be misused for 70 years against your intentions or die because others won't continue to improve your open source project further because of the old license that start to be helpless to protect the open source intentions in a new marked. So, saying "i won't accept the or later clause" is just shortsighted in the long run. I don't know if you care about what happens with your work after your dead, but if it were my work i would take this seriously. Especially when it is a large community project were other developers work depend on your own work. I have enough trust in the Free Software Foundation that they will still protect my intentions after my dead until the work gets public domain after 70 years of my death. Best Regards, Oliver C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
