Re: What does "most recent GPL" mean?
On 12/5/06, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
All of those need to be qualified by *whose* GPL; that's why the
recommendation for licensing a work under the GPL is "[...] GNU
General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation
[...]".
It could be interpreted as the Affero GPL for example.
Otherwise, it would be difficult post hoc to declaim the "EvilCorp
General Public License version 2" as a permitted license.
Even worse, any license that has the initials 'GPL' could be used,
like the EvilCorp General Private License or something really bad like
that.
Also this could be confusing if it turns out that there is another GPL
out there.
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