When using the GPLv3 license for your programming projects,... |

When using the GPLv3 license for your programming projects, do you prefer the "GPLv3 only" or "GPLv3 or later" version of the license? #BoostsAppreciated

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GPLv3 only

35.3%

GPLv3 or later

35.3%

Don't care

29.4%

17 people voted.
Voting ended 8 Jul 2022 at 20:36.

Like 7 Jul 2022 at 20:36 | Open on social.exozy.me

2 comments

Completely Normal Hausdorff Antonia :verified:

@ta180m@social.exozy.me The question is how much you can trust FSF to not make a shit GPLv4. For all his flaws, with Stallman on the board a crappy GPLv4 would have been impossible, but now, with the FSF caught up in scandal after scandal and being unstable who knows who might take over and publish a GPLv4 with questionable content.

7 Jul 2022 at 20:38 | Open on estrogen.network

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@ta180m I used to prefer GPLv3+, because I used to trust the FSF to do the right thing, and make the next version of the GPL something I can stand behind and support. Unfortunately, while that trust is not completely broken yet, it is sufficiently weakened that I now prefer GPLv3-only.

(With that in mind, I'm also lazy, so have been using GPLv3+ in recent projects too, because I haven't updated my templates. I suppose I should do that at some point.)

7 Jul 2022 at 20:41 | Open on trunk.mad-scientist.club