Re: [ros-dev] GPLv3 Migration - flamewar warning

[Magnus Olsen]

>  Steven Edwards
> termination due to an inadvertent violation 
if u read GPL v3
a terminations clause exists and it look same as GPL v3

I have not look at lgpl v3

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Edwards" <winehacker(a)gmail.com>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] GPLv3 Migration - flamewar warning


>   On 7/3/07, Thomas Weidenmueller
> <w3seek(a)reactos.com> wrote:
> >   I believe we've been very clear on the
> > "or later version" clause. That's
> >  what the license says, and that's the rights we grant everybody. 
>  That's partly why I ask.
>
> >   Especially ReactOS should remain open to
> > patent-related issues, at least
> >  allowing derived work to deal with patent issues.
> >
> >  Of course GPL3 code cannot go back into trunk unless it remains an
> >  independent part, ie. a stand-alone application, etc. That's the only
> >  downside I see. I think we only have to really think about switching to
> >  GPL3 in case WINE switches to it. 
>  And this is the other part. There was a situation come up with Wine
>  recently where the LGPLv3 would have served better than the LGPLv2 due
>  to the termination clause in the v2 not giving a grace period for
>  non-compliance. At some point Wine will get LGPLv3 I expect of for no
>  other reason, then to clear up the problem of immediate license
>  termination due to an inadvertent violation.
>
>  -- 
>  Steven Edwards
>
>  "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
>  that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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