Re: setproctitle()

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes:
>>If the FSF is the copyright holder, then there is no (legal) need to
>>ask the original author about permission to relicense the work.  It
>>might be a nice thing to do, but if the original author says no for
>>some reason, the FSF can still relicense the work; they are the
>>copyright holders.
>
> And for that matter, it seems that at that point, the original author
> doesn't have the right to just keep a copy under the terms under which
> they intended to release it...  Thus the issue.  (It turns out that
> GPLv3 is pretty deeply problematic for me; it turns out that I'd rather
> just let people like TiVO play stupid games than have to deal with v3.)

You needn't worry about the possibility of a v2+-to-v3 copyright change.

In the history of gnulib there has been no reason to change a
LGPLv2+-copyrighted module to v3.  On the contrary, we regularly change
v3-copyrighted modules to v2+ (usually on request), so that they may be
used in a wider variety of packages (i.e., including v2+-copyrighted ones).