Quoting Micah Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If they had done the "version 2 or at your option" thing from the > beginning, then they wouldn't have had to obtain agreement from other > code contributors.
Of likely interest: http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html#id2790762 > The beef I have with the "at your option" part is that you are placing > the future of your code entirely within the hands of the FSF. Now, maybe > those are good hands. But theoretically, the FSF could come out with a > /completely/ different, and not necessarily better, license, and call it > GPL 3.0. Maybe it's suddenly not even free (not that it's likely, but > who knows what RMS's successors will be like?); or maybe it tweaks the > definition of "free" in a way I don't like. Then, you (the recipient) elect GPLv2. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
