>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton >Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:26 PM >To: openssl-users@openssl.org >Subject: Re: Licenses... > > >On 4/17/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> The original copyright holder gave the FSF this right when they used >> the GPL on their code, because the GPL isn't simply a statement of >> principles, it is a copyrighted document of the FSF that the original >> copyright holder only has permission to use if they accept all the >> terms of the license. And, one of those terms is a clause in the GPL >> that allows the FSF to change the GPL license in the future. > >Actually, no. You've pretty obviously not actually read the GPL if >you think this. > >You're making a fairly widespread mistake here in your underlying >assumptions -- the FSF only attempts to litigate and settle license >infringements on projects to which it has been assigned the copyright.
Untrue. Here's a press release from the FSF's own website: http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-02-26-MySQL.html FSF does not hold the copyright to MySQL. However they testified in this case. > >A given version of the GPL is static. Linus Torvalds has stated that >the Linux kernel is licensed under GPL v2, and not "GPL version 2 (or, >at your option, any later version)". > He said this for the specific issue I raised. If everyone understood it to be static, he wouldn't have said it. >A given author can put his or her trust in the FSF to come up with >licenses that are not averse to his or her wishes by adding the "(or, >at your option, any later version)" clause in the copyright statement. > However, this is PURELY OPTIONAL. Many authors put their trust in >only a single version of the GPL, and this is the option that Mr. >Torvalds has chosen. > That is a point. > >This exclusive right to copy a work, and the exclusive right to choose >what terms under which a work can be copied, is what makes these >damned licenses so hard to work with. > Yes! Ted ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
