Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:16:10 -0500 | From | Andrew McKay <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, Andrew McKay <amckay@iders.ca> wrote: > >> A balance of freedom to the licensee and the licenser. It's my >> opinion that GPLv3 potentially shifts the balance too far to the >> licensee. > > It's more of a balance of freedom between licensee and licensee, > actually. It's a lot about making sure no one can acquire a > privileged position, such that every licensee plays under the same > rules. (The copyright holder is not *acquiring* a privileged > position, copyright law had already granted him/her that position.) >
I do see what you're saying here. But it does take the away the ability of a licensee to protect themselves from another malicious licensee. If the ultimate goal of the Free Software community is to get source code out to the public, I think that was captured in GPLv2. GPLv3 oversteps its bounds.
Anyways I think this topic has been quite covered.
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