[TriLUG] GPLv3 -- What do you think?

[Shane O'Donnell]

Tanner - Very interesting links...thanks.

All - anyone going to the MIT thing tonight with Webbink?

Shane O.

On 3/16/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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