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Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3
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Martin Pool |
Subject: |
Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3 |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:52:13 +1000 |
Wearing my own personal hat, I am not a big fan of the GPLv3. Having
different licensing rules depending on whether the program
Martin
On 14 April 2011 16:32, Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> wrote:
> ext Joe MacDonald <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> There's actually a number of reasons but they all amount to something like
>> "we
>> are writing proprietary code and don't want to be forced to open-source any
>> of
>> it".
>
> In my experience, that is not the concern with GPLv3. GPLv2 and GPLv3
> are quite the same in this regard, and if you have made your peace with
> GPLv2 by following its conditions, then GPLv3 wont make your life any
> harder.
>
> What _is_ a concern, as far as I can see, are the 'anti-tivoization'
> clauses of the GPLv3: You can not have any kind of signing or
> checksumming in a product that prevents a modified version of GPLv3
> software to actually run.
.. except you can, if it is a commercial rather than a consumer product:
>>> GPLv3 tolerates tivoization only for products that are almost
exclusively meant for businesses and organizations.
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html>
This distinction between consumer and personal use irks me, because it
harks back to the field-of-endeavour restrictions that were rife in
shareware and which GPLv2 and reformed BSD licences largely saved us;
partly because it seems very arbitrary; and partly because it seems to
have been arrived at through back-room negotiations with little clear
justification. (That last bit sounds almost too paranoid, but I have
never found a good statement why it was written this way.) Businesses
have at least as much reason to want to be able to change software
they receive as private persons.
Martin
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, (continued)
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Michael Terry, 2011/04/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/10
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Joe MacDonald, 2011/04/11
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/12
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Joe MacDonald, 2011/04/13
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/13
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Joe MacDonald, 2011/04/13
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Marius Vollmer, 2011/04/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3,
Martin Pool <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Martin Pool, 2011/04/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, edgar . soldin, 2011/04/15
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] GPL-3, Martin Pool, 2011/04/15