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Re: updating GPL to version 3?
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: updating GPL to version 3? |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:37:51 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:05:50AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>
> Is there value in updating our copy of the GPL (in the file
> COPYING)? The version there is now 18 years old. The latest GPL
> version is from 2 years ago: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
>
> Here's an article on why to upgrade. I can't tell if it really
> applies to LilyPond. Any thoughts?
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
Initial thoughts:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-05/msg00085.html
nothing came of that (brief) discussion, though.
Cheers,
- Graham