[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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