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No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

Posted Mar 23, 2007 15:44 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah by Arker
Parent article: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

On the other hand, if you use the 'or later' clause, and decide that you don't really like v3 when it comes out, you can move to v2 only license unilaterally.

Wrong. That is a change in licensing terms, and must be agreed by everybody involved. Just like the other way around.


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No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

Posted Mar 24, 2007 19:28 UTC (Sat) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

No. You are completely within your right to fork a FSF project such as glibc or emacs under GPLv2 only. Bruce Perens tried to make the same claim you did when Busybox moved to GPLv2 only, but he was shot down. Busybox is a pure GPLv2 project today.


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