licensing issues with gpl3 due to the gpl2only limitation

Eric M. Hopper hopper at omnifarious.org
Wed Oct 8 02:20:22 CDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 22:53 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Samstag 04 Oktober 2008 01:24:15 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> > Everyone who specifically licensed their code GPL2-only did so out of
> > concern that later FSF licenses would not be to their liking. Some of us
> > now feel fairly confirmed in this, frankly.
> >
> > Similarly everyone who started off writing GPL3-only code did so knowing
> > that their code would be incompatible with all the existing software in
> > the former camp and decided that the GPLv3 was more important to them
> > than that compatibility.
> 
> For example because they were concerned about weaknesses in GPLv2. Or
> like some of the improvements in the GPLv3. 
> 
> So it means, we are in camps, now... why?
> 
> Am I your "enemy", because I like GPLv3+ and use it for most code I
> publish wherever I don't link against GPLv2-only programs (except
> where I write code which is intended to mostly be used as backend by
> existing projects)?

I feel very similarly to you on this.  I don't really understand why
people don't like the GPLv3.  It seems like in almost all ways a better
license than the GPLv2.

*sigh*,
-- 
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