On 21/05/13 19:04, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:54:44PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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> IMHO, copyleft-next should be forward-compatible, not only with GPLv2
> and GPLv3, but also LGPL and perhaps MPL.
Is copyleft-next forward compatible at this point? I didn't think it
was at the moment, but it's been a while since I've done a close look
at the terms, and of course, I'm not a lawyer. :-) At the very least
I'd be surprised if copyleft-next was forward compatible with LGPL at
the moment.
If it's not, how far away are we from it being forward compatible, and
what would the tradeoffs be?
Which direction is "forward compatible"?
My understanding was that one of copyleft-next's founding principles was
that it was a GPL-style strong copyleft. (Am I right in that
understanding?) Allowing relicensing of c-n code under LGPL or MPL would
rather scupper that.
Gerv