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Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft |
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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:35:08 +0200 |
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"Richard W.M. Jones" <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m wondering about the asymptotic behavior of the current policy:
>> aren’t all modules going to be LGPLv2+ as time tends to +∞?
>
> Speaking as a gnulib *user* I would be happy to see this happen.
I can understand this. However, Gnulib was initially written to serve
the GNU project and its philosophy. Among the weak copyleft licenses, I
find that LGPLv3 better protects the freedom of users than LGPLv2, for
instance.
Ludo’.
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- Re: Relicensing policy & weak copyleft, Karl Berry, 2013/09/19
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