In article <chr### [at] netplexaussieorg> , 
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

> Well, it looks interesting, but I'm not sure how it would be better or
> worse than any of the others...
> Does anyone have any reasons to *avoid* a particular license? Any input
> at all? I think I've had a total of 3 suggestions, for 3 different
> licenses...the Artistic License, GPL, and LGPL.
> The main two licenses I'm considering are the Artistic License and the
> LGPL, and I'm leaning strongly toward the Artistic License, which seems
> generally simpler and more understandable.

You should avoid the current GPL.  It allows the FSF to change the license
in the future and the license allows to apply future licenses to your code
rather than the GPL license version you decided to use.  Legally they could
even change the GPL to give them exclusive copyright or other rights and you
could do nothing about it.

Note that this provision is new and there was a lot of critzism when this
new version of the GPL appeared (because RMS forced this condition into it).
If you really want to use the GPL, use an older version without the "or any
future GPL" clause.

    Thorsten

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