On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I > saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I > remember thinking "a lawyer would have a field day with this - > dozens of ways they could sidestep these issues"
*Pretty* *please* file comments about the apparent loopholes at gplv3.fsf.org/comments > What I was getting at, here, is that the GPLv3 isn't backwards > compatible with GPLv2, It couldn't possibly be. The whole point of upgrading the GPL is such that it complies better with its spirit of defending the freedoms, so as to keep free software free. This can only be accomplished with additional restrictions that stop practices that deny users' freedoms. Relaxing the provisions, a necessary condition for compatibility, wouldn't make for better defenses. > because you aren't allowed to remove rights from the GPLv3. Remember, > there are rights encoded in the GPLv3 that don't appear in v2. I'm not sure what you mean by "rights" in the two sentences above. You know you can grant additional permissions, so I assume that's not what you mean, even more so because you *can* indeed take them out. Is it "conditions", "restrictions" or some such, that in turn translate into freedoms for downstream users, or is it about the granted rights per se? > In fact, if you want to use GPLv3 code in a GPLv2 project you have > to use GPLv3. For some projects, like the Linux Kernel, the upgrade > is impossible to accomplish. Impossible is a bit too strong. I understand it would take a huge amount of work though, so I sympathize with "it wouldn't be worth it", even if, in my scale of moral values, I'd disagree. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
