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).

At which point Wine forks again. I wonder what that fork will be named. :-)

Seriously, I agree. I don't consider that a problem either.
That is the least of my worries with the LGPL.