On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:53:43PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from > > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies developed in some > > sections, Debian does consider it DFSG-free. Debian will however not > > push for its adoption, mainly because we still have much software that > > is GPLv2-only in the distribution. > Why it that a valid, or even relevant reason to avoid pushing GPLv3?
That's been answered already, but, IMO, a sufficient and better reason to avoid pushing GPLv3 is just that there's no need for Debian to push *any* particular free license. As long as its DFSG-free, we don't really need to care -- we might still offer opinions, but we don't have to go any further. Cheers, aj
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