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Le Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:06:09 -0400, |
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Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> a écrit : |
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> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 13:50 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: |
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> > On Sunday, 08. July 2007 13:04:24 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> > > What about moving Gentoo stuff to `GPLv3 or later'? |
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> > I'm strongly opposed to the "or later" part for the simple reason that |
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> > this implicates we will agree with stuff we don't even know yet. |
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> Hear hear. That's why we removed the "or later" rubbish from our |
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> licenses about 4 years ago. |
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> > I haven't studied GPL-3 fully yet so I haven't formed an opinion about |
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> > moving to it alone. |
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> I'm not certain what it buys us to move to v3, to be honest. Unless |
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> there are compelling reasons to do so, I don't think it's worth the |
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> effort to change it. |
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> Seemant |
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The problem is when you want to move. If the original statement is "GPL-2 or |
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later", it is just to move to whatever gpl>2 you want to move. |
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With the original statement "GPL-2" alone, you have to take contact and get an |
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authorisation to move from each single programmer that contributed code into |
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the project. |
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I personally think at gpl-3 is better as gpl-2 because GPLv3 will block |
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tivoization. Tivoization means computers (called “appliances”) contain |
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GPL-covered software that you can't change, because the appliance shuts down if |
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it detects modified software. The usual motive for tivoization is that the |
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software has features the manufacturer thinks lots of people won't like. The |
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manufacturers of these computers take advantage of the freedom that free |
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software provides, but they don't let you do likewise. see |
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html |
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If you want to migrate to GPL-3, the most important question to solve will be: |
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is it possible to get an agreement to do that migration from every single |
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programmer involved in gentoo? |
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My 2 c. contrib. |
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Dominique |
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N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me |
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parvenir. |
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