-------- In message <canx10haonf8mauotcr9w8k9wm-ckbgkqqujm6epq5wzrqp5...@mail.gmail.com>, David Kirkby writes: >On 8 December 2012 08:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And one other detail most people overlook, is that the default GPL text >> gives any users the right to use any later version of the GPL license >> instead of the one you copy&pasted. This has only happened once but >> it had ground-shaking repercussions through out the industry. > >I don't agree with that statement.
You underestimate the power of blind "copy&paste" here: The point is not that you _can_ modify the license on this detail, but that most people don't realize that they should, and the default has the "...or later" language in it. >Unfortunately, the large number of licenses is a real pain. >[...] >The amount of time spent on the Sage developers mailing list >discussing license issues is not insignificant. Yes, license-triage is a major task in many Open Source projects, we have spent oodles of time on it in FreeBSD as well. >Personally I'm not convined that Sage fully complies with the licenses >and I'm not the only Sage developer to think that. And, short of a trip through a court, there is no way you can be sure. All part of life in FOSS... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
