Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I agree with you. I'm also afraid that the next release of the GPL > > won't mean what the current one does. I'm also afraid that the FSF will > > sacrifice it in the name of some exchange. If that happens I pity all > > those that have license their with the words "or any later version". I > > certainly have stopped doing so. My level of trust have gone way down. > > You have to decide whether the risk of having your code used in a > program you consider to be not quite free is worse than the risk of > your code, and maybe other people's code with it, becoming unusable > due to most of the world moving to GPLv3.
True, but I plan to be around to evaluate that license myself. > If there are a large number of people contributing to a project I > think it's better if at least most of them license their contributions > with the words "or any later version". That way, if GPLv3 turns out to > be a good licence the maintainers can switch to using it without > having to get permission from a huge number of people. You are quite right for large projects. For small projects, I have lost sufficient confidence in the FSF to do that. Peter
