[PATCH] new applet: nmeter

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Aug 23 01:49:18 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:17:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> If you want to hold off on merging this patch after GPLv3 ships, we'll 
> probably have gone GPLv2 only at that point.  But right now, we're holding 

May I ask one final time, WHY? What advantage do you get by preventing
people from using the code under GPLv3 as well as GPLv2? Are you
worried that someone will make a derived work and change the "v2 or
later" to "v3 only" and that you'll want to incorporate their changes
into BB but be unable to do so? Unless this is your concern, there is
absolutely no reason to remove the "or later" except to make people's
lives difficult for the sake of political bickering. The last thing we
need is for this sort of pettiness to fragment GPL'd software by
splitting it into two mutually incompatible "v2 only" and "v3 only"
corpuses of code that can't be used together.

As far as I can tell, v3 has its place but it's not right for BB.
However it's ridiculous to prevent people who need v3 from
incorporating BB code into their projects.

Rich




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