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Nice contradiction

Nice contradiction

Posted Mar 22, 2006 17:27 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

The risk of seeing the FSF release a poorly written v3/v4/... has to be put in balance with the risk of you dying submitly right now and hence preventing reusing the code in future GNU GPL'd projects.

v2 already have the ASP loophole...

So actually the last GPL released by FSF is "poorly written", then why should anyone expect that the chances of the next one being "properly written" is higher than the prompt death of the developer?

Bye,NAR


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No contradiction, thanks

Posted Mar 22, 2006 17:53 UTC (Wed) by pyxis (guest, #15886) [Link]

The GPL v2 isn't poorly written, only v2 already have the ASP loophole and will probably show other loopholes as the computer field changes.

As stated, the license upgrade had to deal with new flaws that will happen in the future.

Then, no contradiction neither quality problem, only GPL adaptation to computing evolution.

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