Roy Schestowitz:
[...] While much of the coversation has drifted towards Tivoization,
which is
the more controversial part of the licence, I worry more about other
aspects, such as software patents.
[...] There are companies with very broad
patent portfolios and even prior art would cost a fortune to get
hold of
and show in a court a law. [...]
About GPL3, my personal alert is user's *real* freedom.
As the linux kernel developers said [1]:
"While we find the use of DRM by media companies in their attempts to
reach into user owned devices to control content deeply disturbing,
our belief in the essential freedoms of section 3 forbids us from ever
accepting any licence which contains end use restrictions."
I think that there's many aspect of that licence that WILL create some
trouble to the WordPress community, from keeping probably-distinct
licence information for every external library involved in the
codebase, to a notable loss of code and contributions, and worst of
all, this will happens because WordPress has a conservative approach
on some things, but acts the opposite about its licence. Quite nasty.
I feel like GPL3 is a long and unreadable way to say "we used to trust
you people, but since some of you aren't nice, we let you have almost-
all-your-freedom". I think that's not nice - to many of us in this
list - hear this from WordPress.
This is a matter of attitude, in the WordPress scenario: compatibily
vs. lobbying.
And for the same reason Matt and the core team choose to not support
"go php5" campaign, I think that WordPress needs to remain GPL2.
And please trust me, I'm not used to mix math with code: the *reason*
for both were the same, the *matter* - obviously - not. :-)
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/200422/
Paolo Tresso
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