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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 13:30:57 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • just small circles 🕊
   if the project is not sure either way, maybe it makes sense to appoint a proxy, as per section 14:
   
   > If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the GNU General Public License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Program.
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     just small circles 🕊 (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 13:30:58 JST just small circles 🕊

     • Neil Brown

     @neil for a popular #FOSS project we're discussing relicensing from #MIT to either #AGPL-v3-or-later or AGPL-v3-only. Opinions vary.

     On one hand v3-only licensing may become outdated by new legislation, or miss out if a v4 is much better. Relicensing is then a high effort activity.

     OTOH having the "or later" seems like a folly, as its unknown what a future license version contains. If it is really bad, then that high effort relicensing is still in order.

     Do you have an opinion on this choice?

     翠星石 repeated this.