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What bullshit? This is about a company (Ribbonsoft) which released their code under a modified GPLv2 licence which removed the 'or later clause', thus making it
by gillianseed 14y ago
What bullshit? This is about a company (Ribbonsoft) which released their code under a modified GPLv2 licence which removed the 'or later clause', thus making it a 'new' licence which is incompatible with any other GPL licences except GPLv2.
FSF has since created GPLv3, under which all their code is now released, for all GPLv2 licenced code out there which is using the FSF's original GPLv2 licence there is no problem since it has the 'or later' clause. The problem here is that Ribbonsoft removed the (or later) clause and thus making it incompatible with future GPL versions.
And what is this 'tough situation' they are in?