On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:12, Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: > tom ehlert wrote: > > unlikely. changing the license (from GPL2 to GPL3) requires > > written consent from all contributors ;) > > Most GPL'd programs have this statement: > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > That means (to me: IANAL) if V3 comes out anyone can choose to make a > program licensed in such a manner GPL3 if they want.
Which is why much of the linux kernel specifically states that only v2 can be used ... so the license can't be changed by FSF in a way that the linux kernel developers don't like. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
