[copyleft-next] proxy provisions [was Re: Update 2012-08-15]

Theodore Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Thu Aug 16 14:47:36 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:42:07AM -0700, Luis Villa wrote:
> I think that's primarily because (other than FSF) large non-profits
> using GPL v2 fall into two camps: (1) trust FSF implicitly or (2) have
> other, non-proxy, problems with upgrading to GPL v3. For example, I'm
> pretty sure GNOME would want to use the proxy clause if GNOME switched
> to v3 - but they're unlikely to switch to v3 because of fragmented
> license ownership.

I'm confused.  Do you mean "do NOT trust the FSF implicitly"?  If they
did, they would take advantage of the proxy terms, right?

And certainly there are groups (like the Linux Kernel community) which
do have fundamental philosophical divisions with the FSF.  I'm not
sure if that's a "trust" issue, though --- I trust the FSF to follow
Richard Stallman's ideals.

						- Ted


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