Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux (follow-up to Anders Melchiorsen) | From | Anders Melchiorsen <> | Date | 20 Dec 1998 17:11:05 +0100 |
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Trever Adams <highlander@teleteam.net> writes:
> 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.
But if a GPL version 3 was made, and that version satisfied IBM, then IBM would be free to use the version 3 license.
Sure, *you* could still use version 2 and share all your stuff but IBM would not have to.
-- Regards, Anders (address is valid)
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