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Re: How does GPL3 stack up against KHTML/Safari exploitation?
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: How does GPL3 stack up against KHTML/Safari exploitation? |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:21:48 +0200 (CEST) |
> For those who don't remembered the incident, Apple developed its
> Safari based on KHTML's work, but Apple only distributed changes
> in large patches with little documentation, and refused to allow
> KHTML developer to look at the change logs maintained by
> Apple. How does GPL3 licence prevent such kind of abuse,
The GPLv3 does not require detailed changelogs. The requirements are
even below those of the GPLv2. I suspect that this just reflects
reality because most developers (not just Apple) did not pay attention
to that part of the GPLv2 anyway.
It also reflects the reality that such a requirement would most
certaintly make the license a non-free software license: Sorry sir,
you cannot modify this program without writting extensive
documentation about what you did; and Sir, I only understand
Cantonese, so you have to write the documentation in this language.