Reasons for such a clause
Posted Sep 26, 2006 5:44 UTC (Tue) by
cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to:
Just a question about the GPLv3 by JoeF
Parent article:
Some GPLv3 clarifications from the FSF
Eben Moglen has emphasized many times something that I feel is an
important fact to invoke at this juncture. The drafting process of the
GPLv3 means that the Free Software Foundation is currently engaged in
making decisions about a license that will lay the ground rules for
future dealings in copyleft. The license impacts not only garage hackers
in Pakistan but multi-national corporations with billions of dollars of
interest in free software.
One of the aims of GPLv3 is to have a little additional flexibility.
There are some people who expected this license to enforce redistribution
of modifications in the case of web services; however, many believe that
would go too far. The FSF's answer to this has been to default to the
conservative case while allowing a GPLv3 user to individually decide this
matter for themselves.
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