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Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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