William Stein wrote: > On 9/23/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:46, William Stein wrote:
>> I very much do not like the blanket "or later version" scheme for dealing >> with >> the GPL. This, to me, gives the FSF a blank check for whatever in GPLv4, and >> after seeing GPLv3, I trust them even less than I used to. > > True. And "or later" definitely allows them to not only add new > terms (GPLv3 is GPLv2 + more restrictions), but it allows them > to remove terms. > Software released under GPLv2 or any later version is still under GPLv2 whatever the FSF is doing. Yes, the only problem I can think of is that GPLv4 or later is less restrictive compared to v2. But I don't expect that will ever happen because that will be the end of FSF. Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
