[Foundation-l] Projects without >FDL1.2 migration clause

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 16:04:35 UTC 2008


On 07/04/2008, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

>  >  According to my amateur knowledge of law, it seems that there are
>  >  serious problems with the clause "... or any later version..." in the
>  >  continental law system.

> Could you provide any reference about this?


Indeed. I see this said a fair bit but not substantiation.

And remember the threat model:

"I am suing this person for violating my copyright."
"But I'm using it under this later version, as you specified was
allowable when you released it."
"But I didn't mean it! Judge, tell him!"


- d.



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