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Re: A possible approach in "solving" the FDL problem



Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org> wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>:
> 
> > I agree with you.  I'm also afraid that the next release of the GPL
> > won't mean what the current one does.  I'm also afraid that the FSF will
> > sacrifice it in the name of some exchange.  If that happens I pity all
> > those that have license their with the words "or any later version".  I
> > certainly have stopped doing so.  My level of trust have gone way down.
> 
> You have to decide whether the risk of having your code used in a
> program you consider to be not quite free is worse than the risk of
> your code, and maybe other people's code with it, becoming unusable
> due to most of the world moving to GPLv3.

True, but I plan to be around to evaluate that license myself.
 
> If there are a large number of people contributing to a project I
> think it's better if at least most of them license their contributions
> with the words "or any later version". That way, if GPLv3 turns out to
> be a good licence the maintainers can switch to using it without
> having to get permission from a huge number of people.

You are quite right for large projects.

For small projects, I have lost sufficient confidence in the FSF to do
that.

Peter



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