From a850e533a025075bb1d6d6734b6a02beca977788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Fontana Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:55:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] restored original name of present-day sec. 12 What is now section 12 of GPLv3 (the successor to GPLv2 section 7) bore the heading "Liberty or Death for the Program" in the initial public draft of GPLv3. The heading was, I believe, devised by RMS. This wonderful title was, I think, thought to be too radical-sounding or something (perhaps a vendor or commercial user raised such a concern early on during the GPLv3 drafting process), and so the drafters changed it to "No Surrender of Others' Freedom". The original heading is clearly superior. I have myself taken to calling this provision the "liberty-or-death clause" and such terminology has to some degree caught on with others. In fairness, I recall that RMS also made the point that under this provision the Program does not actually "die"; rather, particular copies of it may become nondistributable. Thus the heading was never truly accurate. But the principal reason for this change was lamentable primness. I have therefore restored the original heading. --- GPL.next | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/GPL.next b/GPL.next index ad5e793..3b940bb 100644 --- a/GPL.next +++ b/GPL.next @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ or that patent license was granted, prior to 28 March 2007. any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law. - 12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom. + 12. Liberty or Death for the Program. If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not -- 2.11.4.GIT