[Mimedefang] GPLv3

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Mon Jul 2 11:44:25 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 08:22 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Richard Laager wrote:
> 
> > If MIMEDefang is GPLv2-only right now, then you can't change that
> > without getting consent from every other copyright holders or replacing
> > that code.
> 
> MimeDefang is _not_ GPLv2-only right now:
> 
> Quote from mimedefang.pl:
> "# This program may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
> # Public License, Version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> "

Good. Then anyone that wants to redistribute MIMEDefang under the GPLv3
is free to do so and anyone that wants to redistribute it under the
GPLv2 is free to do so. So unless there is a problem with v2 that was
fixed in v3, I don't think there's any reason to force v3 on everyone.

Richard
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