Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:56:33 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000517005633.B22400@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from davids@webmaster.com on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:27:50PM -0700 References: <20000516044511.B8613@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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For the record, this is what RMS says. He doesn't exactly answer
my question (I had made it clear that I'm not asking whether it
is desirable, only whether it's allowed), but from the tone of his
answer I would imagine that it is not prohibited to do this,
merely a "bad idea".
I've found that when one has a serious doubt about the GPL or his
intentions behind it, the simplest thing to do is to ask him: he
always replies. Moreover, he is genuinely concerned about clearing up
misconceptions (like the suggestion that he opposes using the LGPL for
all future libraries). The trouble (as with many other controversial
people) is that people prefer to trust second hand information rather
than read his writings directly and understand what he's saying.
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: Re: GPL question
Is it ok to license one's software under "version 2 of the GPL, and
only that version"?
It is a bad idea, because when we have GPL version 3 and release other
programs under version 3, your program will be stuck at GPL version 2.
And it will be illegal to copy code between your program and all the
other GPL-covered programs that are released under GPL version 3.
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