Subject: Please tone down the GPL3 paranoia
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.busybox
Date: 2006-09-13 22:29:20 GMT (2 years, 42 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours and 14 minutes ago)
Folks,
I think it would be supportive of the rest of the free software community to tone down the GPL3 paranoia until there is a GPL3.
When I created Busybox, the policy was that it could be distributed under the GPL. There was no restriction to prevent future versions of the GPL. Over time, my work has been submerged in that of other authors. But IMO it would be respectful of the original author to continue to use those license terms.
Later on, when there is a GPL3, you may decide not to accept GPL3-only submissions to this project's source code repository so that the GPL2 can continue to be applied to the entire project. But I hope that when that time comes, you will remember that much of the success of this package can be attributed to the use of a strong share-and-share-alike license rather than a license that would have allowed improvements to the package to be locked down in some way.
Thanks
Bruce
I think it would be supportive of the rest of the free software community to tone down the GPL3 paranoia until there is a GPL3.
When I created Busybox, the policy was that it could be distributed under the GPL. There was no restriction to prevent future versions of the GPL. Over time, my work has been submerged in that of other authors. But IMO it would be respectful of the original author to continue to use those license terms.
Later on, when there is a GPL3, you may decide not to accept GPL3-only submissions to this project's source code repository so that the GPL2 can continue to be applied to the entire project. But I hope that when that time comes, you will remember that much of the success of this package can be attributed to the use of a strong share-and-share-alike license rather than a license that would have allowed improvements to the package to be locked down in some way.
Thanks
Bruce
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