For Approval: GPLv3

Chris Travers chris at metatrontech.com
Fri Aug 31 17:47:11 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>   
>> On 8/31/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> [...]
>>     
>>> Where exactly does GPLv2 say explicitly it is not a contract?  The
>>> situation hasn't changed at all in GPLv3.  As far as I know, the FSF
>>> stills views it as a license, but this isn't directly stated in either
>>>       
>> When defending itself in Wallace v. FSF lawsuit, the Free Software
>> Foundation went on record with this:
>>     
>
> You've totally ignored my point, which was that neither
>  GPLv2 nor GPLv3 said GPL was not a contract.
>   

I thought I saw wording to this effect in the GPLv2.  I did not.  It was 
probably on some other explanatory note somewhere.  I was wrong and 
stand corrected :-)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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