From 877f44605ec1768e279843e36c214b656d191011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:01:24 +0000 Subject: license: allow all future versions of the GNU GPL There is currently no GPLv4, so this change has no effect at the moment. In case the GPLv4 arrives and I am not alive to approve/review it, the lesser of evils is have give blanket approval of all future GPL versions (as published by the FSF). The worse evil is to be stuck with a license which cannot guarantee the Free-ness of this project in the future. This unfortunately means the FSF can theoretically come out with license terms I do not agree with, but the GPLv2 and GPLv3 will always be an option to all users. --- LICENSE | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'LICENSE') diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 02d634c..05d3818 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -3,15 +3,17 @@ revision control for names and email addresses of all of them. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software -Foundation (FSF), version {3.0}[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt] -or version {2.0}[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt] -or the Ruby-specific license terms (see below). +Foundation (FSF), either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) +any later version. We currently prefer the GPLv3 or later for +derivative works, but the GPLv2 is fine. -The \Rainbows! project leader (Eric Wong) reserves the right to add future -versions of the GPL (and no other licenses) as published by the FSF to -the licensing terms. +The complete texts of the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are below: +GPLv2 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt +GPLv3 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt -=== Ruby-specific terms (if you're not using the GPLv2/GPLv3) +You may (against our _preference_) also use the Ruby 1.8 license terms. + +=== Ruby 1.8-specific terms (if you're not using the GPLv2/GPLv3) 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7