[Geany] Plugin licensing

[Yura Siamashka]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:18:02PM -0600, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 1:59 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the "or later" clause, the GPL faq
> > has this to say about it:
> > ...
> > And regarding plug-ins:
> > ...
> 
> Thanks for the links - that is some interesting reading,
> but it seems like the more I read about the GPL, the less
> I understand it :-)
> 
> The "VersionThreeOrLater" link seems to explain why the clause
> is an advantage to end users, but I fail to see how that provides
> any protection to developers who might not agree with the terms
> in a future version of the license.

I belive something said here: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2OrLaterPatentLicense

If you don't have to give up you patents, you don't have to pay 100000$ to any user either, even if such statement will appear in gpl >3.

Best regards,
Yura Siamashka