[FFmpeg-devel] GPL version matter

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala
Sat Jun 30 23:30:18 CEST 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 22:19 +0200, Christophe GISQUET wrote:
> Indeed I missed it, thinking 2.1 was a matter of phraseology. I
> generally don't make my choices on absolute confidence in a sunny
> future, or more tersely, that I will like any GPL versions coming out
> any day.
> 
> > so even without the "(at your option) any later version."
> > anyone can take your LGPL 2.1 code and change it to GPL 12.3.4
> 
> Then let my obvious question after that obvious correction be:
> Are contributions under the strictly version 2 GPL accepted?

Given that GPL 3 has already been released and is no longer an unknown
"any GPL version coming out any day", do you explicitly want to forbid
use under it?





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