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GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing

GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing

Posted Feb 27, 2016 12:34 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing by Wol
Parent article: Winning the copyleft fight

NB - If you fork a v2+ project and add v3+ code OF YOUR OWN, of course now you can say that the PROJECT is v3+, because it is.

You can't, however, stop the next forker from reverting your 3+ changes and going back to v2+.

Cheers,
Wol


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