[TriLUG] GPLv3 -- What do you think?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 3/15/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds maintains that this means that unless a program
> explicitly states that it is licensed under GPL v2.0 OR ANY LATER
> VERSION then later versions can not be applied.  He also states that
> the source code has always been marked as being licensed under GPL
> V2.0
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273
>

Note, btw, that not all kernel contributors agree with Linus.  Linus
apparently added
the v2 only language for version 2.4.0-test8 [1] and Alan Cox believes
that it was
not done with other kernel contributors permission and therefore only affects
Linus's contributions [2].  More info about the entire thing can be
found at [3].

[1] http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.1/0096.html
[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/169831/
[3] http://lwn.net/Articles/169797/

Cheers,
Tanner
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