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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of SQUALK modular IRC services - savan
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Matt Kavanagh |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of SQUALK modular IRC services - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:06:09 +0100 |
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:21:41AM -0500, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.
> Would you please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?
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> The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
> important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3. If you
> don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
> GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
> be very difficult.
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> We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish. If you have
> concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", We'd be happy to address them
> too.
As I'm the only developer currently and all code I have looked at in relation
to this can be licensed under any version of the GNU GPL, the issue of
obtaining permission from copyright holders doesn't really apply at the moment
as far as I can see.
I'm not willing to release code I write under an as yet unpublished license,
sorry.