Holger Weiss wrote: > * Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-03 09:47]: > >> Are there any plans to upgrade the official plugin distribution to GPLv3? >> > > This hasn't been discussed yet, so I can only speak for myself. > > >> Are there any advantages/disadvantages to doing so? >> > > First, almost all of the official plugins explicitly state that they're > licensed under "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any > later version", so you can use and redistribute them with GPLv3 code > already. Obviously, the "advantage" of switching to a GPLv3-only > license and therefore prohibiting redistribution under the GPLv2 would > be to force the additional restrictions imposed by the GPLv3, which I'm > personally not interested in. It would also make using other people's > GPLv2-only code impossible. On the other hand, as soon as we want to > include some GPLv3-only code, we'll have to upgrade to GPLv3-only, so > I'd _guess_ it'll happen some day anyway. > > >> Does anyone have any opinions in licensing of 3rd party plugins as GPLv3 >> instead of GPLv2? >> > > Personally, I'm somewhat annoyed by the various incompatible Open Source > licenses floating around, as it they can make re-using code impossible > in some cases. As the GPLv3 is yet another license which is > incompatible to everything else, I'm not really a fan of it. I would > prefer "GPLv2 or higher" licenses over "GPLv3-only", if possible. > However, that's just me. People who are interested in the new GPLv3 > restrictions will of course prefer "GPLv3-only" licenses. > > Holger > Thanks for the response, I think your points are valid. I'll continue to use a GPL version 2 or higher license in order to try to maintain compatibility and then I'll go GPLv3 when more people get in to it.
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