about licenses

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Apr 19 22:55:46 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:56 am, Paul Fox wrote:
> erik wrote:
>  > On Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 06:36:55PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>  > > Putting "or later" in the boilerplate gives us the option to
>  > > move to gplv3 if it turns out not to suck.
>  >
>  > And gives folks the option of sticking with gplv2 and completely
>  > ignoring gplv3 if in fact gplv3 does turn out to suck or gives
>  > them a collective corporate anti-DRM rash, etc.
>
> i'm confused about this.  if code is licensed as "version 2 or
> later", is it even legal to restrict the code to just version 2
> in subsequent revisions of the code?  isn't that adding a
> restriction that wasn't there in the first place?

No, it's taking a subsection of the permission grant.  That's like taking a 
file that's dual licensed and taking just one of the licenses.

Rob
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