GPL v3

[Julian Field]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 27/09/2007, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>   
>> on 9/27/2007 11:47 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
>>     
>>> on 9/27/2007 8:44 AM Martin.Hepworth spake the following:
>>>       
>>>> BSD -
>>>>
>>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14361/1091/
>>>>
>>>> To quote from the licence template itself: "Redistribution and use in
>>>> source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted
>>>> provided that the following conditions are met:
>>>>
>>>> "Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>>>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>>>> "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>>>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>>>> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>>>> "Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its
>>>> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
>>>> this software without specific prior written permission."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The third condition here would help with the 3 companies I've heard of
>>>> that are taking the MailScanner code and perhaps not feeding anything
>>>> back (code or money).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What are the three companies doing this?
>>> Just curious... Inquiring minds want to know  .
>>> I always wodered if Opencomputing was doing that (Openprotect).
>>>       
>> But they do contribute the sa-update channel for the sare rules.
>> Replying to myself ... I must have postfix running somewhere.  ;-P
>>     
> Wellcome to the family:-D;-)
>
> My view on all this license stuff is ... why change? Newer
> license/higher version number doesn't necessarily mean "better". What
> goal do you aim at Jules?
>   
I wasn't planning on changing or anything. I just wondered if there were 
any advantages in moving to GPLv3. Sounds like the answer is no, so I'll 
stick with GPLv2.

Thanks for all your contributions to this discussion.

Jules

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