On the 'death penalty' thing
On the 'death penalty' thing
Posted Feb 2, 2012 14:05 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: On the 'death penalty' thing by kripkenstein
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox
From the rationale for the first draft of GPLv3 (http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-rationale-2006-01-16.html#SECTIO...)
"GPLv2 provided for automatic termination of the rights of a person who copied, modified, sublicensed, or distributed a work in violation of the license. Automatic termination can be too harsh for those who have committed an inadvertent violation, particularly in cases involving distribution of large collections of software having numerous copyright holders. A violator who resumes compliance with GPLv2 would need to obtain forgiveness from all copyright holders, but even to contact them all might be impossible"
GPLv3 doesn't clarify the termination clause. It materially changes it.