[LAD] Attribution for Community Approval

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Jan 31 16:37:42 UTC 2011


On Saturday 29 January 2011 18:59:32 Jeremy Salwen wrote:
> > Anyway that is the reason I delete the "or any later" term in my
> > copyright notices. Apart from the fact that one can never know whether
> > gpl4 will give all the rights exclusively to microsoft or google or the
> > nsa...
> >
> > I have always wondered about this, as it never made sense to me to
> > license
>
> your work under something which doesn't exist yet, and you don't know what
> its terms will be!  Will the GPL5 also give away rights to your organs
> along with the software?  Probably not, but I'm not willing to risk it.

For a (strong?) copyleft license, there are benefits and dangers each way. 
People have to make their own call on this.
>
> Jeremy

all the best,

drew



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