On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 05:59:35PM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 12/28/2013 04:15 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > >> On 12/28/2013 03:53 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > >>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:45:09AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > >>>> As one of the "GPL v2 only" proponents, I take affront. I choose to > >>>> license what little software I release as GPL v2 only because I do not > >>>> consider the GPL v3 to have what attracted me to use the GPL v2 in the > >>>> first place. > >>> > >>> The only theoretical advantage I see to GPLv2 is in the termination > >>> clause, and in practice that seems to be really more trouble than > >>> it's worth. > >>> > >>> Beyond that you have substandard and unclear wording, tivoization, > >>> lesser patent protection, and incompatibility with Apache 2.0. > >>> > >>> So what about that is attractive, and what about v3 is so intolerable > >>> that you cannot abide your software being distributed under it or > >>> combined with v3+ works? > >> > >> There are organization who will allow v2 but not v3 because of the > >> tivoizaton and patent clauses. A developer may want > >> his work to be used by such organizations as well as by Debian. > > > > That would be an argument for v2+, not v2 only. > > Nope. An organization that will not accept the GPLv3 because of the > tivoization and patent clauses will not accept > GPLv2 or later. The "or later" clause means a downstream can invoke their > rights under the GPLv3 to demand secret > encryption keys or upstream can revoke the license for patent action. These > organizations do not accept GPLv2+ because > it's effectively GPLv3.
The "or later" means "or later" and just that. It doesn't mean a downstream can say they received it under the later version. And the upstream can't claim that either. But a downstream can change it to v3+ if they wish, but that doesn't change anything for the people they got it from for whom it will still be v2+ (until they change that). Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131229005126.ga9...@roeckx.be
