Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:28:57PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> FSF advocates that wording, and there are rumors that you *must* do it
> that way.  Be the rumors true or not, almost everyone uses that
> clause.

When the FSF releases a new version of the GPL, it will probably be
incompatible with the GPLv2.  The only likely way to keep them compatible
is to include an option to change to the new version.  I believe that's
the main reason for not removing that clause: software without it will
cause major license compatibility problems down the road.

Due to the GFDL debacle, I no longer trust the FSF's conception of
"free" (eg. "similar in spirit") to my own software, so I'm not
comfortable with the upgrade clause, and not using the upgrade clause
will cause big problems down the road, so I'm starting to avoid the GPL
for my own work.

-- 
Glenn Maynard