Messages in this thread | | | From | Patrick McFarland <> | Subject | Re: Maybe it's time to fork the GPL License - create the Linux license? | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 05:25:05 -0400 |
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On Monday 02 October 2006 04:55, Marc Perkel wrote: > Just a thought. Suppose we forked the GPL2 license and created the Linux > license? (Or some better name) It's kind of clear the Stallman has his > own ajenda and that it's not compatible with the Linux model. So - lets > fork it an start a new one. > > The idea of the new license is as follows. It would be backwards > compatible with GPL2. It's would eliminate the "or later" clause because > we have already seen the potential for abuse there. How can one agree to > future licenses without knowing what they are going to be? The other > feature is that the license is only modified to provide legal > clarification or to deal with future issues that occur as a result of > new technology or circumstances that we don't know about yet. If the > licenses is modified then copyright holders would then have to > explicitly declare that they accept the modifications by switching to > the new terms.
I'd be behind such a license if it was 100% functionally equivalent to the GPL (ie, a reword just to get around the FSF Copyright of the GPL). I'd even license my own code under it.
Linus, you want to chime in here?
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