RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

[<burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b.n. [mailto:brullonulla@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:29 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
> 
> 
> Personally I'm quite happy with both GPLv2 and GPLv3. 
> Frankly, my only 
> real, serious concern is the fact that the two licences are 
> incompatible.
> 
> The fact compatibility has not explicitly allowed sounds 
> plain crazy to 
> me. 
>
> When I tried asking about how to have some degree of compatibility 
> between GPLv2 and GPLv3 in code I write, everyone told me 
> "just license it under GPLv2 or any later version". The problem 
> is that in this case I have to blindly trust the FSF about anything 
> that will come out of it. 
>

That honestly is the only real way to make them compatible,
to use the "or any later version" clause.

Version 3 only allows for very specific modifications to itself.
Version 2 was a little more forgiving.

Version 3 says "Here is a list of optional clauses."

There are other options, but they make it into a new license.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list