-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 09:30:57 schrieb Hans Aberg: > > I'm not a lawyer, but if I came across "v2 or latest" wording, my > > advice would be to treat it as "v2 only" because to do anything else > > IS TOO DANGEROUS. So your wording is self-defeating because no sane > > distributor would dare take advantage of the "or latest" clause. > > That seems to be the case: at least for new restrictions, "or later" > essentially useless.
No, it's rather essential. Imagine someone wants to create a fork of LilyPond, where he directly links to gs instead of calling the binary. He'll be out of luck, because gs is GPL v3(+?), while LilyPond is GPL v2only. The "or later" allows to link GPL v3 libraries... > So it is probably simplest to just update the license when you have > time. All these GPLs are probably reasonable for LilyPond You can't simply go around and change licenses, unless you are the copyright holder! That's the paperwork that is needed: Every contributor, who has until now contributes as GPL v2only, needs to agree to change his/her contributions to GPL v2+. Unless you track down every substantial contributor (git helps in that regard), LilyPond can't switch to GPL v2+. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKqK3LTqjEwhXvPN0RAjczAKCUASOZgW6wFuxTVp3kyoA7qxtfRgCeMzjA uLc390K5rJ1bP8JKOVPjKlE= =zUrD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
