On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:18:41AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > As an interesting point, GPLv3 is even better for this: it has a clause > (GPLv3 §7) that explicitly grants the recipient the freedom to ignore > the offending additional restriction, and to strip that restriction from > the terms when they redistribute the work. > > So one possible way to improve this situation is to correspond with the > copyright holders in each of the works on which LinuxSampler depends, > and encourage them to release new versions under GPLv3-or-later. > > Then LinuxSampler's copyright holders would be faced with the choice to > have their imposition of additional restrictions neutered, or never gain > the benefits of upgrading the dependency.
I was unaware of this detail of the GPLv3 license. The first source file that I looked at in linuxsampler's svn trunk, src/linuxsampler.cpp, has the "any later version" clause enabled. Jeff
