Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Nicolas Mailhot <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:44:59 +0200 |
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Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 13:27 -0400, Rob Landley a écrit :
> Er, yes and no. > > The GPL evolved from the "Emacs License", and _that_ was heavily influenced by > Stallman's fight with James Gosling over Gosling revoking permission to use > Gosmacs code in GNU Emacs after Gosling sold his codebase to a commercial > entity. > > http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/
no and yes :)
The second paragraph of this page makes the GNU philosophy the other source of the GPL, and that was definitively influenced by the printer incident
-- Nicolas Mailhot [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |