On Jun 12, 08 19:11:35 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Screen is such a popular and long-standing program, it's especially
> important to have it be actively maintained. The last release I see on
> ftp.gnu.org is from 2004 :(.
After that date we published updates through openSUSE.
> One immediate issue is that, as a GNU package, the license should be
> upgraded to "GPLv3 or later". If you don't want to make a new release
> with technical changes now (which would be ideal), then could one of you
> prepare a release simply changing all the 2's to 3's in the license
> notices and changing the COPYING file to the new text?
I'd like to ask the copyright owner *not* to kick GPLv2.
Changing all the 2's into 3's is easier done, than undone.
One downside that I am aware of, is, that it creates an undesired
incompatibility with existing non-GNU code that remains GPLv2.
Portions of screen code where reused in the past in other projects,
one example was irsii, if I recall correctly; another one should be
readline.
I believe GPLv2 wasn't such a bad license that its compatibility
should be abandoned.
We've all enjoyed the freedom of copy/paste-ing GPL code across
projects, so I'd like to show my gratitude by allowing others
exactly the same.
Is this a plausible point of view?
thanks,
Jw.
PS: The only other issue I have with GPLv3 is its size. :-)
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