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If freezing legal status of a project forever is short-sighted, the ability to opt-out of upward compatibility in GPLv2 is a tragedy, as is the same in GPLv3. I
by mlinksva 14y ago
If freezing legal status of a project forever is short-sighted, the ability to opt-out of upward compatibility in GPLv2 is a tragedy, as is the same in GPLv3. If there ever is a GPLv4, hopefully it will be purely GPLv4+ with no option for GPLv4-only.
- cube13 14y agoYou're assuming that you're going to agree with the terms of GPL5. That's certainly not a good assumption(See Torvalds, Linus).