[Foundation-l] Licensing interim update

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 04:04:27 UTC 2009


Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> <cimonavaro at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Anthony wrote:
>>     
>>> Surely there is a significant difference between an updated version of
>>>       
>> the
>>     
>>> same license, and a license which says the work can be relicensed under a
>>> different license.
>>>
>>>       
>> Define "same license". It really seems to me you want to
>> define a license as being different if it changes something
>> you don't like.
>>
>>     
>
> In this context, for a license to be the "same license" as the GFDL, it
> would need to be called "GFDL X.Y" and be published by the FSF.
>
>   
>
I think that says it all. If that is what you really want,
good day to you, sir.



>   
>> The torturous logic can't
>> disguise that the license has been GFDL from the git-go
>> and is not departing from that license against the prime
>> guardian of that license. That is the bare fact.
>>     
>
>
> Huh?
>   

See my above reply.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen





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