On Jun 14, 2007, "Alan Milnes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed - if you want to take my work you are welcome as long as you
> contribute back your changes. That's the deal that GPL2 enforces and
> why it has been so successful.
Where did you get this impression that GPLv2 enforces this deal?
It doesn't, and this is *exactly* why I dispute the claim that GPLv2
is tit-for-tat.
> GPL3 is a very different beast with a much wider agenda,
The agenda is *precisely* the same: ensure that all users are free to
modify and share the licensed software.
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FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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