Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:59:35 +0100 |
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Ar Gwe, 2006-09-29 am 17:48 +1000, ysgrifennodd tridge@samba.org: > I'm also a strong proponent of "authors rights", and I would consider > it very nasty if someone took one of my projects and decided to fork > it to be GPLv2 only, deliberately going against my intention. They > might have a legal right to do so but it would clearly be against my > wishes. I'm not even 100% certain it would be legal.
In the FSF case the reverse is more likely - the FSF uses its copyright assignments to re-version a piece of software they own the rights to. That I think is self-curing because people will contribute to the forked tree without giving the FSF assignments - which is authors rights 8)
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