On 2013-05-21 23:39, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
So the question with respect to copyleft-next is whether the
diagnosis
that the reason for the decline in copyleft's popuarity is because the
license is too complicated, or for the reasons which Rob has
articulated. If the answer is a little of both, is there anything we
can do to make sure that copyleft-next doesn't make the problem of
splitting the copyleft community worse? (i.e., by introducing a new
license which is both GPLv2 and GPLv3 incompatible)
This analysis is where copyleft-next shines, IMHO. Explicit upward
compatibility with the GPLs and other licenses plus the permissive-next
mechanism are what will make copyleft-next not split the copyleft
community, but rather save it from becoming irrelevant.
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