Dangerous back door in the LGPL

Roland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
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Hello,

excerpt from the Wine LGPL:

"Wine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
  the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
  Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at
  your option) any later version. "
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The dangerous part is the last "any later version". This puts a lot of 
power into the FSF and is dangerous. Basically it gives WINE to the FSF 
since the FSF may change its license anytime to something different. What 
if the FSF suddenly gets bought by Microsoft?

Btw, I'm not the first to complain about this, some big guy at RedHat also 
pointed out this problem. He recommends snipping away that part of the 
license...

Roland
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