[ale] What do y'all think about Microsoft's new war?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On Mon 2007-05-14 14:11:50 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> What does this sentence mean?
>
>>>
> Smith didn't, and Moglen kept his promise. On March 28, the Free
> Software Foundation made public revised GPL provisions, which are
> expected to take effect in July.
> <<
>
> I assume it is about GPL v3, but I'm not aware of any kernel /
> distributor / etc. statements that they will be moving from v2 to
> v3.  Specifically, Linus has repeatedly said that the kernel will
> stay v2, or has that changed?

the article repeatedly confuses Linux-the-kernel with
GNU/Linux-the-OS.

The FSF, which holds copyright on on most of the GNU userland, has
indicated that it plans to relicense to GPL v3 as soon as it is
stable.  This includes everything from binutils (ls, mv, cp, etc) to
bash to gcc, i think.

The kernel will most likely not move to the new version of the
license, as you suggest, due in part to Linus' hesitations, and also
in part due to the colossally diverse authorship which makes it
difficult to get license update agreements from all of them.

          --dkg
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