This is FUD - plain and simple

This is FUD - plain and simple

Posted Apr 21, 2009 20:25 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: It'll be the other way by southey
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Take a look on OpenSSL. There are some files under 2-3 compatible licenses. No problems whatsoever - except bloat: now every file must carry few headers. The same with GPLv3: you can not remove original permission header with "GPLv2 or later", but you can safely attach new header before or after that'll say "all changes can only be distributed under GPLv3 or later".

The effective result is GPLv3: to use GPLv2 you need to split the hair and remove "GPLv3 or later" code from the file. If introduced change is not trivial (and for trivial change there are no need to touch header at all - old "GPLv2 or later" copy is still around somewhere, right?) it's very hard.

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