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Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone
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Ludovic Brenta |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone |
Date: |
Sat, 21 May 2011 18:38:58 +0200 |
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Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
> Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2011-05-20 4:46 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> GPLv3 was heavily reviewed before it was released, and has been out for
>>> almost 4 years.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate?
>>>
>>> I'm sure there are good reasons not to bother going to GPLv3, but I
>>> don't understand what you mean by "premature".
>>
>> Switching to GPL3 would make us license-incompatible with a large body
>> of code (everything under a copyleft that isn't v3-compatible, in
>> particular, code under v2-only). It would also make us
>> license-compatible with a large body of code (anything that adds
>> restrictions that are okay with v3 but not v2).
>>
>> It is my impression that the former body of code is much larger than
>> the latter, and it is my opinion that we should not switch as long as
>> that remains the case.
>
> If everyone adopts this attitude, no one will ever switch to GPLv3. And
> we would not be using GPLv2+ now; we'd be stuck with GPLv1.
+1
> Since we have benefited so much from the Gnu packages and the FSF
> licenses, I think we have a duty to move to GPLv3, since it gives better
> support for software freedom.
+1
I recommend that the relicensing to GPLv2+ that Stephe approved apply to
monotone 1.0 but that the next published release of monotone migrate to
GPLv3+.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Stephen Leake, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Hendrik Boom, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Hendrik Boom, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Richard Levitte, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Stephen Leake, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone,
Ludovic Brenta <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/21