Simple Public License, draft

[Ken Arromdee]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
> This "or any later version" has always bugged me. What if the FSF loses 
> a lawsuit against Evil Corp., and in order to pay a judgement, all of 
> the FSF's intellectual property rights are awarded to Evil Corp.; which
> then releases a version of the GPL which allows Evil Corp. to make 
> proprietary use of any GPL'd software.
>... 
> That's why I don't do it. If someone can convince me that this would 
> never happen, I don't mind adding the "or any later version", but in 
> the past, for this reason, I have always specified an exact version
> of the GPL for my software.

What happens if later on there's a GPL version 3, and someone wants to mix
code from a GPL program which uses version 3, and yours?