Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux (follow-up to Anders Melchiorsen) | Date | 20 Dec 1998 11:58:12 GMT |
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Followup to: <367CE115.719BE9C0@teleteam.net> By author: Trever Adams <highlander@teleteam.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Anders said: > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > > If so, one would "just" have to convince FSF to change the license and > produce a version 3 of it and all GPL'ed programs would follow. I think. > > *** > > Nice try. If it says that paragraph, then I can still use it under the > GPL version 2, which would give me full rights. >
That's right, but you can grant additional rights in a new release.
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