On 2013-12-28 17:59:35 -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 12/28/2013 04:15 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > >> There are organization who will allow v2 but not v3 because of > >> the tivoizaton and patent clauses. A developer may want his work > >> to be used by such organizations as well as by Debian. > > > > That would be an argument for v2+, not v2 only. > > Nope. An organization that will not accept the GPLv3 because of the > tivoization and patent clauses will not accept GPLv2 or later.
Then such an organization should not accept any 3rd-party software, because the copyright holder is free to add a license at any time, such as changing "GPLv2 only" to "GPLv2 or later", including versions that have already been released. This is just silly. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131229015759.gb20...@xvii.vinc17.org
