Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 13:23 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Just about everyone has expressed an opinion on the Novell/Microsoft patent agreement - except, that is, for the 800-pound gorilla of Linux: IBM. Today, Scott Handy, IBM's VP of Worldwide Linux and Open Source, decided that enough was enough and it was time to state IBM's position. In an interview with Linux-Watch.com, Handy opened by saying that, "IBM has long supported interoperability between Windows and Linux. As supporters of open source and open standards," he continued, "we applaud any effort to bridge this gap."
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Member since:2005-07-06
GPLv3 is going to fly. Every piece of software under the GNU banner is GPLv2 or later. Certain bet that the FSF is going to up the license, as the copyright holder, as soon as the next GPL goes gold.
So the complete GNU tool chain will become GPLv3. Guess what is used to build GNU/Linux distro's? Even if Linux the kernel stays GPLv2 (relicensing is hard to do, but not impossible), most of the stuff around it will go GPLv3.
For all who want a GPLv3 free universe, happy forking and maintaining. Maybe pilfering BSD tools is an option too.
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You don't have to worry about any of this mess if you just use Windows. Or SUSE, who will be forced to fork every GPL3 project to maintain this legal agreement with Microsoft.
I'm not worried about using anything in my environment as long as it does the job.
Already Novell is excluded from distributing GPL3 code. This will hurt SUSE if nothing else. In that attack, Microsoft has already landed a first blow.
You're making the assumption that GPL3 is going to fly and that everyone is going to run with it. What if Linus doesn't move the kernel to it? Will the kernel then have to be forked by every distro?