[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vf_osd take two

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:04:46AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 September 2005 01:21, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:01:50PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:22 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > i dont want to be picky but which version? :) ==v2 or >=v2?
> > >
> > > I don't think that's being picky.  It's an oversight on my part.
> > > Although I'm inclined to stipulate >=v2, is there a preference among
> > > mplayer developers?
> >
> > I would prefer GPL >=2, it allows going over to GPL v3 some day.
> 
> I prefer GPL == v2. You never know, they might put something in v3 you don't 
> like. As the copyright holder, one can always relicense their code to v3 if 
> it turns out to be as good as or even better than v2.

I don't think this is an issue. GPL v3 will never add new permissions
that let people do bad proprietary things with your code. Instead it
will probably be more restrictive, to close possible loopholes with
regard to dynamic linking type things and web apps.

The benefit of having GPL >=v2 instead of ==v2 is that, if you like
the new restrictions in v3, you can change all your >=v2 code
immediately to >=v3 without needing to contact anyone, and get the
benefits. And if you don't want to add the new requirements you can
just leave it as >=v2.

> Although I realise that for a large project with numerous authors, this 
> might be difficult to accomplish, say, five years from now. But I think 

Definitely.

Rich