Am 14.01.2023 um 19:35 schrieb Matthias Andree:
Am 14.01.23 um 18:29 schrieb Arne Schwabe:
We also considered going for a change from GPL2 to GPL2+ but we think
that GPL3 would hurt the ability to distribute OpenVPN as part of
router or other embedded devices as the GPL3 has been explicitly
developed (at least in part) to make this use case harder/impossible
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization)
Arne,
Am I reading this right, that you EXPRESSLY WANT TO stick to GPLv2-only
IN ORDER TO PERMIT router and other embedded device vendors to DEFEAT
THE SPIRIT OF COPYLEFT LICENSING and distribute devices containing
OpenVPN that prevent execution of modified code?
Please clarify how and why.
I am saying that going GPL3 instead of going GPL2+Apache exclusion would
no longer allow OpenVPN to be shipped with routers. Also the change from
GPL2 only to GPL2 and above would much larger than the currently
proposed change that is as minimal as possible.
Arne
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