[ Thanks to Nate for this link.
]
“LXF: Do you see any confusion surrounding the
transition from GPL version 2 to version 3?“Eben Moglen: I think there will be minimal
confusion, because there will have been a long public conversation
and there will be–I hope–no reseller or developer or distributor
of GPL software who doesn’t know that licence change is going on. I
think your question’s predicate is right: the automatic
re-versioning clause will take care of the bulk of projects. Those
projects that were labelled GPL 2 only will have to make decisions
about whether to switch. And depending on how that project is
internally governed and constructed, that may be easy or it may be
difficult…”
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