Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 17:14 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Sun Microsystems is the latest company to become a patron of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's corporate patron program allows companies to provide financial sponsorship for the FSF in return for free license consulting services. High-profile FSF patron affiliates include prominent technology companies like Google, Nokia, IBM, Cisco, and Intel. FSF involvement represents Sun's latest attempt to take a more active role in the open-source software community.
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2006-11-26
> how could the GPLv3 create a license incompatibility with the GPLv2
Section 6 of GPLv2 says:
> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
GPLv3 is expected to impose more restrictions than GPLv2. Therefore, GPLv2 and GPLv3 are expected to be incompatible.
>when the FSF says it's only trying to solve the same problems?
The spirit of (any version of) the GPL is to ensure that all users have the right to share and change the licensed program; GPLv2 is doing a great job at ensuring this. However, there are people that have managed to nullify the user's right to share or change a GPLv2 licensed program without breaking the letter of GPLv2.
One of the intentions of GPLv3 is so that the loopholes found in GPLv2 that nullify the users' rights won't happen in GPLv3 licensed programs.