Re: Copyright assignment requirement

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

David Chisnall wrote:
> Not specifically related to GNUstep, but I have personally come across several 
> companies who refuse to allow GPLv3 code in the door and a smaller number that 
> won't allow GPLv2 code in.  Most of these are large companies that do employ 
> lawyers.  Have you ever tried to get a definitive answer from a lawyer?  I can 
> guarantee that no lawyer will look at the GPL and say definitively that it's 
> safe, because lawyers simply do not do that with legal documents that complex 
> (the FreeBSD Foundation's lawyer has difficulty making definitive statements 
> about the 2-clause BSD license, and that's an order of magnitude simpler).
I have seen a lot of talk about GPLv3 being evil but GPLv2 acceptable.
However, I have nevcer seen clear statements, motivated and compared of 
what can be done and not-done that motivate this, not by companies, not 
even a terse statement by FreeBSD.

Not being a lawyer, I read both licenses and had a problem forming my 
own opinion. In laymans speak, I like v2 better because cleaner, 
smaller, although the original issue addressed by v3 ("tivoization") is 
a real one.

If you have some unbiased (how much unbiased it can be in this kind of 
discussion) I'd like to read about it. Up to now I kept my personal 
projects v2+

Riccardo