Re: GPL v2, or (at your option) ...
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:18 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> >
> > I would prefer if we could kill the
> > ", or (at your option) any later version"
> > from all our files. I just found it in TeX-on-Debian, but it is for sure
> > not only there.
> >
> > The discussion and problems going round wrt the GPL v3 makes me think
> > that it makes sense to stay with GPL v2, and if GPL v3 is released, we
> > can still add something.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > For now I don't put this restrictions onto my contributions, but I would
> > like to hear your opinion on this.
>
> I have not followed the GPL v3 discussions lately, and I don't have a
> particular strong opinion on this issue. The only thing I don't want to
> do is contact and bother everybody again.
ACK. I think Florent's approach ("GPL v2" for personal projects and "GPL v2
or later" for projects done with other people) is a good compromise in
the current situation.
cheerio
ralf
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