Re: GPLv3 or later -- Lispref files refers to text in lispref.text
Mats Lidell wrote:
>>>>> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler(a)online.de>
writes:
Andreas> Really? I.e. they wrote: but _not_ any later version of GPL?
Andreas> Does it make sense?
They don't have to specify what licenses that doesn't apply, that list
would be long. Only the license that does apply needs to be specified
and if that says GPLv2 then that is so. Files with this type of
copyright need to be relicensed by the copyright holder or if that
isn't possible they need to be replaced.
Hi Mats,
probably I should come the an end with this matter. :)
I'm afraid FSF software movement is stepping into a legal trap to the extend,
it can't be called free anymore.
That already started with famous `copyleft' notion, and developers
considering GPL non-free have their point IMHO.
Nonetheless I'm willing to weight the practical side - as long as
(X)Emacs is available, thats my prove in first instance
and as long I'm determined to contribute.
Andreas
PS Copyright notion is a trap in programming. Programming is about ideas,
not line-counting copyright. The author of e=m*c**2 would have lost his
case, because no judge would consider such a mince
notation worthwhile in the sense of copyright.
BTW the same in literature. Emily Dickinson never got paid for
her poems because of copyright. Copyright is for the dull.
Andreas> What a kind of misuse of code might happen? Eating the paper,
Andreas> if its printed somewhere. IMHO people may misuse computers
Andreas> and probably do. GPL can't hinder that.
Well the misuse is that the code is used in a way that the license
doesn't allow.
Andreas> Anyway, didn't want to make you upset. Just wanted to bring
Andreas> some momentum to the issue.
No problem. It is good to discuss it but I'm afraid that there are
probably no shortcuts here. So to get some momentum IMHO the proper
thing is to dive in, find weak spots and try to find out what need to
be done about them. That has to be done for each file, one by one, and
documented.
Unfortunately we haven't found any good way to do this in a
collaborate way yet.
Yours
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