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Re: The Affero license



On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:10:04PM -0500, David Turner wrote:
> 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.

I've always seen the upgrade clause as ensuring that the license is
upwards-compatible (so we don't have the OpenSSL "contact every upstream
author" deal come about when GPLv3 comes about), with this bit being
handy but very secondary.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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