[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 at gmail.com>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at 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 at 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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