On 7/3/07, Thomas Weidenmueller w3seek@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.