On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:12:43AM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > That would be silly, since you could always fall back to v2. The only > > reason to fear v2 or later is that v3 could be too permissive, not too > > restrictive. > > No; if I release software under v2 or later, and a v3 with this clause > is released, I have a problem: somebody can take my work, make > modifications to it, and distribute it in such a way that I cannot use > it.
I think you may be ignoring the bit about the license being automatically granted by the original author, not someone down the chain who happens to have modified it. But I don't have time to check the details now. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
