From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: license item Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87fxdnuhnc.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <4A4475DD.2070407@online.de> <878wjfyz0e.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <4A44D444.9040809@manor-farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDUf-0003wo-Ue for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDUZ-0003tw-2u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53725 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDUY-0003ts-Li for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:30 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:42134) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKDUX-0007TM-Kg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:01:05 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist Carsten Dominik writes: > On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Ian Barton wrote: >> I see Carsten has added a link to the GPL. However, I think it's worthwhile >> specifically saying which *version* of the GPL. >> >> This might seem a trivial matter. However, I am involved with another project >> where the maintainer moved the licence from GPL V2 to GPL V3, with the best >> of intentions. A large commercial company wanted to contribute considerable >> resources to the project, but they were unhappy with the V3 licence and >> wanted to continue with V2. As a result considerable effort was wasted in >> getting everyone who had contributed patches to the V3 version agreeing to >> them being "backported" to the V2 licence. > > Interesting. > > Being part of Emacs amost forces us to use 3. I did that with org-info.js lately after reading a bit about GPL-3 and seeing this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5G7FU5j2Uc Sounds like it is good thing, even a neccessary one. Sebastian