On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Matthew Hambley wrote:

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         John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  2) Come to an agreement about whether to permit the user to relicense
     the software under future GPL versions. For reference, GPL version 3
     has been recently released. This may be found at
     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

I've had a quick look at the link provided above and of course it's all
dense legal verbiage. Does anyone have a link to a summary of the
differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3? I withhold my comments until I have a
better understanding of what this is about.

I'm not aware that there is such a summary. The best I can provide is the following:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Whether either of these documents are sufficiently objective, I'll leave up to you.

You may also want to consider
http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-dev-netsurf-browser.org/2007-July/000597.html
There's also a 5th option in addition to the 4 listed there:

5. I don't mind either way.

This option is equivalent to an abstention.

Thanks for your reply,


John.

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