Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:54:51 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000516155120.75167A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000517005633.B22400@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> > To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in > Subject: Re: GPL question > > Is it ok to license one's software under "version 2 of the GPL, and > only that version"? > > It is a bad idea, because when we have GPL version 3 and release other > programs under version 3, your program will be stuck at GPL version 2. > And it will be illegal to copy code between your program and all the > other GPL-covered programs that are released under GPL version 3. > Of course, if you release code under the standard "version n, or any later version", and FSF gets bought out by Microsoft^Wthe forces of evil, and releases version 3 of the license which says "screw you, we get all the rights", you can't do much but whine. If it really ever became an issue, the original author -- or his copyright inheritor -- can re-release under the new license. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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