Licenses?

Posted Oct 11, 2011 0:19 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Licenses? by jra
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

At least as far as I understand many Linux authors, they are fine with GPLv2 and don't agree with GPLv3, won't give up their copyright (or other rights, including the "change the license" right) to anybody within the Linux community, and definitely will never give the "change the license" right to somebody outside said group. Just remember the flamewars that erupted when it was suggested to move Linux to GPLv3.

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Licenses?

Posted Oct 12, 2011 22:13 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

And FWIW, there's nothing saying an author could not later relicense their own code as GPLv4, if v3 changes they didn't approve of were rolled back...

Strictly speaking, you're supposed to distribute the code under the version of the license it came with, but if a sole developer later relicensed his code under a newer license, and you took the old package from a 3rd party under that newer license, I'd be hard pressed to see anyone give you crap about it...