Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 12:00:54 -0500

In message <36866066.595B@voxel.net>, Raj Dutt writes:
+-----
| Zack Brown wrote:
| > (and e.g. allows proprietary forking etc), thus affecting
| > all programs currently licenced under the GPL, what could anyone do about
| > that? And please don't say, "oh, he would *never* do something like that."
|
| Why don't you read, and then reread the exact clause that you so kindly
| attached in this ridiculous scenario. A new "nightmare" GPL version
| would not affect any programs currently licensed under the GPL.
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Actually, it would; you are ignoring the phrase

| > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
| > (at your option) any later version.
+--->8

"Your" in the above phrase means the reader of the license, including anyone
who wished to apply the "proprietary fork" clause of Zack's phantasm.

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