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Re: gpl version 2 for cvs


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: gpl version 2 for cvs
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:55:16 -0400

    > It would be good to update CVS to the GPL version 2, and change the
    > copyright notices in the individual files to be what's legally 
recommended.

    Why?

1) Because there are (small) bugs in version 1.  That's why there was a
   version 2, after all.

2) So that the cvs copyrights have a better chance of standing up in
   court if they are challenged.  That's the whole point of having
   copyrights and licenses.



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