[copyleft-next] Some initial comments on the copyleft-next draft

Bradley M. Kuhn bkuhn at ebb.org
Mon Jul 30 23:28:50 UTC 2012


Richard Fontana wrote:
> the actual license notice, which Bradley and I came up with, said this:
>
>   This notice constitutes a grant of such permission as is necessary
>   to combine or link this software, or a modified version of it, with
>   Request Tracker (RT), published by Jesse Vincent and Best Practical
>   Solutions, LLC, or a derivative work of RT, and to copy, modify, and
>   distribute the resulting work.  RT is licensed under version 2 of
>   the GNU General Public License.
>
> *At the time* I considered this clever.


I still consider it clever, in the sense that it punts all decisions of
license compatibility between GPLv2 and AGPLv3 for the specific
circumstance to a Court.  I still wonder sometimes if additional
permissions of that nature might be the future of cross-copyleft
compatibility.

   -- bkuhn


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