Re: Updated Licence Draft

On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > Btw, is "KDE e.V. decides" referring to the v3 clause allowing
> > > e.V. to allow a later version of GPL, or to allow /an arbitrary
> > > license/? Might want to make that clear...
> >
> > this is not clarified yet, because KDE e.V. has not decided upon a
> > policy. So indeed it means "any arbitrary license". In the
> > extremely unlikely event of GPLv4 making it impossible for KDE to
> > use its 3rd party components (Qt, X11, others), we would have to
> > use a different license. I would guess the chance for that
> > happening is close to zero, but thats the same like winning the
> > lottery. The most likely thing that would happen is that the e.V.
> > formally approves GPLv4 as an acceptable license and your
> > contributions would be automatically relicensed as GPLv4.
>
> The way we've been talking about it on this list, and the way the
> licensing policy is written, it refers to future GPL versions.  In
> particular, e.V. is listed in the copyright as the entity acting as
> the proxy in GPL v.3, which only allows future versions of the GPL.

Oh, and that's the understanding I (and, I suspect, others) had when 
adding myself to the "v.2/v.3/e.V" list in the perl script.

Alex



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