Licence text and fabs

Licence text and fabs

Posted Oct 3, 2006 21:17 UTC (Tue) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)
In reply to: Licence text and fabs by stijn
Parent article: Busy busy busybox

While I generally agree that you can't reduce the GPLv2 to "tit for tat", it was largely compatible with the viewpoint that tit-for-tat fairness was what mattered. That is, it could be used happily by authors who cared most about fairness and by authors who cared most about freedom. Some of us think that inclusiveness was an advantage.

I don't question that GPLv3 moves in the direction of the FSF's philosophical center and the aims of many of its supporters. However, it's still important to consider whether it may be going too far. The GPL has always had to balance its ultimate goal of complete freedom against more practical constraints. Some of us believe that GPLv3 has pushed too far.

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