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From: Bernd Wurst
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:02 PM
Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 10:42 schrieb Alessandro Vesely:
However, I'm concerned about that "and no other version".
I'm concerned about the frequent use of "or any later
version" in many free software projects. Some free software
enthusiasts are still not very happy with the contents of
GPLv3, so why should someone place his code under a license
he does not know yet?
And while one's thinking about that, ponder the fact that a court in some
jurisdiction somewhere in the world could decide to rule on some aspect of a
license that developers thought they understood, and we'd end up with an
_effective_ license that is different from the currently understood one (at
least in that jurisdiction).
GPLv3 should
come in a few months and Courier's Copyright holder may
want to use it.
Then, there will still be an incompatibility: would the DomainKeys
Identified Mail (DKIM) addition have to be reverted in that case?
Don't spend too much brain about that version-stuff. After
all changes that have been made, I still hope that GPLv3 will
be somewhat compatible with GPLv2, so you can use GPLv2 code
in GPLv3 projects. Everything else would break GPLv3's neck.
While we're at it, Sam is of course perfectly free to use any license he
chooses, but changing a license mid-stream carries implications that are
quite different in nature from changing the version of a library. Which is
to say that if one is content with GPLv2, why on earth would one change?
Particularly since, in the short term, it may be wise to see if a new
version like GPLv3 gets challenged or interpreted in some unanticipated
fashion...
Malc.
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