[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

[Delirium]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/2/7 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Anyone can take any idiot question to court. That doesn't count as a
>> reason to assume that there must therefore be a substantive reason to
>> believe that the "or later" language doesn't apply. Nor does being
>> unable to prove a negative.
>>     
>
> I don't understand what you are trying to say. Some people have
> indicated that certain jurisdictions have laws against "or later"
> clauses. Experts in the laws of these jurisdictions should be asked to
> determine the truth.
At the very least, it seems to empirically not be a problem. The GPL has 
included the "or later" language since it was first published in 1989, 
and has since gone through two updates (the first in 1991), without, as 
far as I can find, a single ruling invalidating that language. And 
GPL-licensed stuff has *much* more extensive worldwide commercial reuse 
than Wikimedia content does.

-Mark