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Re:Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2 by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:47PM (#15918777)
> That's rather hard to believe IMO, as I've never read or heard anything from the FSF that is purposely deceitful in this manner.

The FSF has claimed that several licenses that have requirements not present in GPLv2 are compatible with GPLv2; the FSF is very aggressive in pushing the use of their license and their bias for such use definitely colors their representation of facts.

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Re:Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2 by jancsika on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:35AM (#15922479)
But do you have any evidence of a developer telling them, "I don't want the additional requirements GPLv3 would bring," and the FSF replying, "That's fine, you can just use GPLv3 without the such-and-such clause"?

Aggressively pushing the GPLv3 and misrepresenting its efficacy to GPLv2 fans are two completely different things.

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