Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks (original) (raw)

To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, 431109@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:49:58 +0200
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Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de) [070630 10:16]:
- Santiago Vila:
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    file.  Packages should not refer to GPL and LGPL symlinks in
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- ```
    that directory since different, incompatible versions of these
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- ```
    licenses have been published by the Free Software Foundation,
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- ```
    hence using the symlinks could lead to ambiguity.
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I disagree with this. It should be ok to point to the latest version of the GPL if the program says "Version X or later". Many programs do that, and we should not need to change them.
But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 or later" under the GPL version 3?

And how do we discriminate between "GPL version 2 or later" and "GPL version 3 or later"?

If it says "version N or later", we should of course point to the earliest version to give users the choice which version they want.

Cheers, Andi

http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

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