Re: Dangerous back door in the LGPL

Roland <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

I don't think this is dangerous at all, it simply gives us more
flexibility. If the FSF comes up with a better version we can easily
use it, and if they come up with a version we don't like we can keep
using the current one (and possibly remove the "any later" clause at
that point).

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Alexandre Julliard
[email protected]