Re: GPL v2 only,please

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I am not surprised. You explained the reason why it may be the best option for a large scale project with a considerable upstream code base (c) FSF and like to follow the GPL license progression. For a single-person or otherwise closed-circle project, not using the "or at your option any later version" clause causes no immediate problem: the person will always be able to actually change the license whenever he consider a new license better. For such a project, indeed I would be hard to come up with a good reasoning. The best is probably that it might keep others from using and/or contributing, and that if anything happens to the author at one time (he dies or gets fatally disinterested in any paperwork), his project might increasingly get unused because of license incompatibilities and because companies get better ideas about how to endrun GPL versions from a later date. I'd perfectly understand Steven Baur to express his dislike and distrust of Stallman by not giving people the "or later" option for private software of his, and that's probably similar to what Didier had asked Richard Stallman about. But for XEmacs, the consequences of such an individual action will cause quite more problems for XEmacs than they ever could affect Stallman. It really reminded me of the "Life of Brian" motion picture's entry of a "suicide commando" close to the end of the film. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta