I'm not sure I buy your argument. You (upstream) could have licensed your code under LGPL, somebody added something and licensed his/her parts under GPL and you still can't reintegrate them, regardless of Affero and v2 vs v3 argument, right?
Posted Aug 11, 2011 0:05 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
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that is part of the decision in licensing your code under the LGPL (just like someone can do that if you license your code under the BSD license)
prior to this, that has not been something that people who use the GPL had to deal with.
and if you think this sort of thing never causes problems, then you've been missing a LOT of flame wars started by BSD people complaining because GPL people use their code in ways that they can't benifit from.
Why I have trouble trusting FSF
Posted Aug 11, 2011 12:34 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
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Those must be BSD people who secretly whish they were not, because being able to integrate others' changes is NOT what their license was designed for.
Why I have trouble trusting FSF
Posted Aug 11, 2011 19:47 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
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That is not problems, that is just BSDers whining over their license working as intended.