On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Michael Drake may or may not have written...
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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
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On point 2, we require clarification (see above) from:
Rob Jackson
Darren Salt
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What I want to avoid is unredistributability caused by linkage with libraries
licensed under GPLv3 (or later), should such linkage be necessary due to lack
of suitable libraries licensed under GPLv2 (or later).
For that reason, relicensing SHOULD be allowed.
Further, via IRC:
| <@tlsa> _ds_: can you clarify that by "SHOULD" you meant "I want the
| relicencing clause but I wouldn't object if it isn't preasent"?
| < _ds_> It's sort of "I object, but not quite strongly enough."
Thanks for this.
John.
