Re: GPL v.3?
Richard Stallman writes:
> But if someone modifies the GPL and releases a program under the modified
> GPL, that is an incompatibility which you can't correct. You can't
> modify his program to put it under the real GPL!
But if someone writes his own license and screws it up, you may not even be
able to use his program!
> So people can and occasionally do write incompatible kinds of copyleft
> using language much like the GNU GPL. But they surely do it less often
> than if we invited them to do it, and that is very important.
And they surely bungle it more often than they would if they were allowed
to derive from the GPL, and that is very important. Software published
under defective licenses often cannot be distributed at all.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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