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Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone
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Hendrik Boom |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone |
Date: |
Fri, 20 May 2011 21:51:20 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:53:59PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 2011-05-20 4:46 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> GPLv3 was heavily reviewed before it was released, and has been out for
>> almost 4 years.
>>
>> Can you elaborate?
>>
>> I'm sure there are good reasons not to bother going to GPLv3, but I
>> don't understand what you mean by "premature".
>
> Switching to GPL3 would make us license-incompatible with a large body
> of code (everything under a copyleft that isn't v3-compatible, in
> particular, code under v2-only). It would also make us
> license-compatible with a large body of code (anything that adds
> restrictions that are okay with v3 but not v2).
GLP2+ is compatible with GPL2.
GLP2+ is compatible with GPL3.
-- hendrik
- [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Thomas Keller, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Stephen Leake, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Hendrik Boom, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Stephen Leake, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone,
Hendrik Boom <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Hendrik Boom, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Richard Levitte, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Stephen Leake, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Ludovic Brenta, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Monotone-devel] GPLv3 code in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2011/05/21