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Re: setproctitle()
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: setproctitle() |
Date: |
Wed, 05 May 2010 07:24:46 +0200 |
Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes:
>>If the FSF is the copyright holder, then there is no (legal) need to
>>ask the original author about permission to relicense the work. It
>>might be a nice thing to do, but if the original author says no for
>>some reason, the FSF can still relicense the work; they are the
>>copyright holders.
>
> And for that matter, it seems that at that point, the original author
> doesn't have the right to just keep a copy under the terms under which
> they intended to release it... Thus the issue. (It turns out that
> GPLv3 is pretty deeply problematic for me; it turns out that I'd rather
> just let people like TiVO play stupid games than have to deal with v3.)
You needn't worry about the possibility of a v2+-to-v3 copyright change.
In the history of gnulib there has been no reason to change a
LGPLv2+-copyrighted module to v3. On the contrary, we regularly change
v3-copyrighted modules to v2+ (usually on request), so that they may be
used in a wider variety of packages (i.e., including v2+-copyrighted ones).
- setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/03
- Re: setproctitle(), Jim Meyering, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Jim Meyering, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Eric Blake, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/05/05
- Re: setproctitle(),
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: setproctitle(), Paolo Bonzini, 2010/05/05
- Re: setproctitle(), Eric Blake, 2010/05/05
- Re: setproctitle(), Karl Berry, 2010/05/05
- Re: setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Karl Berry, 2010/05/04
- Re: setproctitle(), Peter Seebach, 2010/05/04
Re: setproctitle(), Bruno Haible, 2010/05/04