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In the software case this is a real (and quite stupid) problem, and it is specific to the GPL (and AGPL) license, in particular if projects use it against the r
by the_why_of_y 10y ago
In the software case this is a real (and quite stupid) problem, and it is specific to the GPL (and AGPL) license, in particular if projects use it against the recommendations of the FSF as "version N only".
However it's not necessary to resort to permissive licensing, as there are many copyleft licenses that avoid this problem, such as LGPL, Mozilla's MPL, or Eclipse's EPL.