GPLv3

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Jul 13 12:40:28 EDT 2007


A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:11:18PM +0545, Prasanna Gautam wrote:
>  It doesn't make much difference relicensing because most of the codes
>  involved are in GPL v2 or later anyways. So I think the best strategy is to
>  wait and see what comes up. But maybe GPLv3 can help us counter pontential
>  Tivotization (i.e proprietary competing products using OLPC codebase ...
>  depends how far its good....)

The whole "Tivo" issue (I hate that name, the FSF took a company that
complied and got their explicit blessing and turned around and vilified
them) does not matter at all as it only affects the kernel, which is not
changing from v2 at this time.

thanks,

greg k-h



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