The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld) [LWN.net]

The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 6, 2012 22:29 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld) by karim
Parent article: The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Same here. It covered 99% of the problems, and that's good enough for me. Sure there were some things for which GPLv3 was an improvement, but I would rather they had been covered by separate licenses rather than try to make the GPL handle everything and thus handle nothing well.

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The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 8, 2012 17:44 UTC (Sun) by BeS (subscriber, #43108) [Link]

>It covered 99% of the problems, and that's good enough for me. Sure there were some things for which GPLv3 was an improvement, but I would rather they had been covered by separate licenses

You mean such "minor" improvements like taking care of international law and not being US-law centric. Or increasing license compatibility?

For me GPLv3 is a clear win and I still wonder what GPL.next actually want to fix and if the author really think that this is worth license scattering?
I would think we have far more than enough free software license ranging from really simple non-protective licenses over weak-protective licenses to strong-protective licenses. Additionally you can get all of them with or without additional software patent clause. Where is the actual need for yet another license aka GPL.next?