Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Toby Speight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 0> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > 0> Ben L. Pfaff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ("Ben") wrote: > > Ben> I think that you may be confusing GPLv3 and the GFDL. The GFDL > Ben> is the license with optional Invariant Sections. The GPLv3 does > Ben> not have

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Toby Speight
0> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 0> Ben L. Pfaff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ("Ben") wrote: Ben> I think that you may be confusing GPLv3 and the GFDL. The GFDL Ben> is the license with optional Invariant Sections. The GPLv3 does Ben> not have any concept with that name. Absolutely right - I was

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Toby Speight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe I chose GPL v2 for the above (I have a healthy distrust of > making commitments to future unknowns). Is it fair to say that GPL v3 > with no Invariant Sections is reasonably closely equivalent to GPL v2? I think that you may be confusing GPLv3

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PSG> Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When I met a proprietary Elisp program several years ago and >> wondered about this phenomenon on an Emacs mailing list, it was >> explained to me that a program needn't be

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PSG> I thought this was a fairly clear-cut issue, but people on > PSG> -legal seem to be saying that you can use a (possibly > PSG> interpreted instead of linked) GPL'ed library

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PSG> I thought this was a fairly clear-cut issue, but people on PSG> -legal seem to be saying that you can use a (possibly PSG> interpreted instead of linked) GPL'ed library with code of any PSG> license, so there's no pr

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toby Speight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe I chose GPL v2 for the above (I have a healthy distrust of > > making commitments to future unknowns). > > It seems vaguely absurd to worry about such things given the small size > of the package. I d

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Miles Bader
Toby Speight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe I chose GPL v2 for the above (I have a healthy distrust of > making commitments to future unknowns). It seems vaguely absurd to worry about such things given the small size of the package. -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge -- To UNSUBSC

Re: GPL V2 and GPLv3

2007-09-05 Thread Toby Speight
0> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 0> Peter S. Galbraith mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ("Peter") wrote: Peter> For the source emacs-goodies-el package, the only files affected are: Peter> Peter> , Peter> | ;;; home-end.el --- Alternative Home and End commands. Peter> | ;; Copyright 1996 Kai Grossj