From f078eb93d343bb27cf5c6dc84efbe7c598d572fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:05:10 +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 | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'LICENSE') diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 099110a..5b6458e 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -3,15 +3,18 @@ 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 unicorn 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 or GPLv3) +You may (against our _preference_) also use the Ruby 1.8 license terms +which we inherited from the original Mongrel project when we forked it: + +=== Ruby 1.8-specific terms (if you're not using the GPL) 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