Re: The Affero license
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:30, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> David Turner <novalis@novalis.org> writes:
>
> > When you say, "every likelihood", I am not sure that I agree. In fact,
> > it seems rare to me that code from a web app would go into a non-web
> > app, although not impossible. Still, it seems that the clause could be
> > reworded to take this into account.
>
> The problem is the shortsightedness here. It's that you have to guess
> about what will be useful in 100 years. Hardly!
The GPL is finally showing cracks after 14 years (12 for v2). I don't
think any license could work for 95 years (assuming no future CTEAs).
So, that's why there's the upgrade option.
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