From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T11:43:23+09:00
Subject: Re: GPL v3 and Ruby License.

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On 6-Apr-06, at 9:35 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> I'm personally going to avoid putting 'or any later version' in any of
> my code, because I'm afraid that even if I'm down with GPLv3, which
> for the most part I am... what's to say about GPLv4 or GPLv5?   Is my
> code going to be under a wildly different license 10 years from now
> (assuming with incredible ego that i'll have some project that spans
> that time frame)?

Personally, I will just avoid using the GPL because of this nonsense.

> I don't want to think about it... so dropping the 'any later version'
> term from my license file will save thinking about it.

Everyone should do this in my view, only explicitly granting  
permission where they chose too.

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Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca



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