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Re: [Matt Asay Tells The Truth] Stallman: GPL doesn't guarantee softwar
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Alexander Terekhov |
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Re: [Matt Asay Tells The Truth] Stallman: GPL doesn't guarantee software freedom |
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:30:27 +0200 |
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> > THE LACK OF A MORE FLEXIBLE LICENSE FOR MYSQL WILL PRESENT CONSIDERABLE
> > BARRIERS TO A NEW FORKED DEVELOPMENT PATH FOR MYSQL.
>
> Uh, you conveniently forgot to mention that this is about MySQL being
> licensed GPLv2 _only_ (not as common, GPLv2 or later). Since GPLv2 is
Does the BSD/MIT/Apache... suffer from that "problem"?
Apart from that, "or later" is utter legal nonsense because absent
sublicensing, the "later" license terms may come into effect only by the
affirmative act of the copyright holder and for that nobody needs "or
later" clause.
regards,
alexander.
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