On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote: > > Von: "Ralph Corderoy" <[email protected]> > > It also changes the licence from >=GPLv3 to >=GPLv2 on a couple of files > > that remain; they're copyright FSF. COPYING at the top level is v3. I > > don't know if this is an issue, just raising it for those that do. > > GPL2 is logical, GPL3 is bullshit from `above'. Debian succesfully fought > against GPL3 for years. Everything using GPL3 and FDL became non-free and > was hidden in normal Debian publications.
No, this statement about Debian's behaviour is simply untrue and always has been. Debian did determine that GFDL-licensed works containing unmodifiable sections are non-free per its guidelines (http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 - note that this is confusingly laid out, and the winning option was Amendment A). Debian has never had any widespread objections to GPLv3, and has certainly never considered it non-free. Packages using GPLv3 have been in Debian main for years. Of course you are entitled to have whatever opinions you like about the GPLv3 - but please refrain from spreading untruths about Debian in the process. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
