Move GPLv2 vs v3 fun...

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 13 03:15:46 PDT 2006


On Sunday 10 September 2006 01:49, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 08 September 2006 7:04 pm, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > > or should we just admit that the BusyBox license is GPLv2 only?
> > 
> > I don't understand very well your reflexion about GPL.
> >  - You dislike GPLv3 because it reduce some liberties
> >  - You propose to remove the "or latter", IOW to remove a liberty
> > Isn't there a contradiction ? Or did I misunderstood your position ?
> 
> Don't invent a straw man argument please.  I consider licensing BusyBox under 
> GPLv3 to be useless, unnecessary, overcomplicated, and confusing, and in 
> addition to that it has actual downsides.

Just for the record: I am trying to stay as far away from licensing wars
as possible. GPL2 is ok with me, GPL2+ is ok with me too.
I simply don't want to think about this can of worms too :)
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vda


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