[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

Kees Jongenburger kees.jongenburger at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 16:37:31 BST 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Scott James Remnant<scott at netsplit.com> wrote:
> I'd rather we figured out what the specific issues with the GPLv3 were.
>
> That being said, the licence fork would assumedly be based off the 0.3.x
> branch or 0.5.0/1 which are both "GPL version 2 or later".  So the fork
> would be in the strange position where it could not take any code from
> bzr, or from later Upstart releases (since they are GPLv3 only) while
> Upstart trunk itself could happily merge the code of the fork (because
> it is permitted to increase the licence version).

Yup but in such situation you are not the copy right owner of the code
so you can not simply copy the code and say it's your. so that's just great.
and the code can't be merged either way unless you drop your strange
requirement to also own the code.



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