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Re: Please, no GitHub
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Luboš Doležel |
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Re: Please, no GitHub |
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Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:31:19 +0100 |
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On 12/12/2015 06:01 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > They have created a website to suggest licenses for newcomers
> > (http://choosealicense.com/ <http://choosealicense.com/>) and all
> > license listed there are free licenses, with GPLv2 and GPLv3
> > featured at the same time under one of their three major
> > categories.
>
> It fails to mention GPL v3-or-later at all. It tends to leads people
> to use GPLv3-only or GPLv2-only, both of which we deprecate.
>
"GPLv3 or later" is not a license. GPLv2 is a license, so is GPLv3. They
can hardly promote a license that doesn't even exist yet.
Since choosealicense.com hosts a full copy of GPLv3
(http://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/), there is indeed a section
recommending declaring "either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version" in the source files.
As a personal opinion, I don't like stating "GPLv3 or later", because it
makes me release source code under a license I never could have read and
agreed to. I am, technically, giving FSF the right to release my source
code under any terms they come up with for the next GPL.
--
Luboš Doležel
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