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[Aaron Bentley]

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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Aaron Bentley writes:
> 
>  > I suspect that adding the "Affero" clause would have induced grave
>  > backwards-compatibility concerns, since the first two versions did not
>  > have it.
> 
> No more than *any* other change to a copyleft license.  All copyleft
> licenses are mutually incompatible, that's all there is to it.[1]  The
> only way out is dual-licensing.

Obviously copyleft licenses are not compatible in a legal sense.  I was
speaking of philosophical compatibility.  A change that rendered the
GPL3 unpalatable to a significant fraction of existing GPL2 users would
have been against the interest of those creating the GPL3.

Aaron
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