Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jul 2007 17:49 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba. The GPLv3 is the updated version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free Software in the 21st Century. To allow people to distinguish which Samba version is released with the new GPLv3 license, we are updating our next version release number. The next planned version release was to be 3.0.26, this will now be renumbered so the GPLv3 version release will be 3.2.0. To be clear, all versions of Samba numbered 3.2 and later will be under the GPLv3, all versions of Samba numbered 3.0.x and before remain under the GPLv2."
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Member since:2007-02-17
It would be also interesting to hear something from large and important projects like gcc, KDE, GNOME,... What they are planing to do.
The GPL v3 license is authored by the GNU foundation.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
gcc and GNOME are GNU projects ...
http://gcc.gnu.org/
http://www.gnome.org/about/
... work it out for yourself.
I don't know what KDE will do.
Member since:2007-02-17
I would really like to follow the adoption of GPLv3. Is there any way to do this? Something like a wiki or a webpage which keeps track of it?
I don't know about a wiki, but this Palamida site might have the information you are after:
http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp
The adoption rate of GPL v3 so far seems to be 116 projects per week:
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2193729/gplv3-draws-116-project...
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2005-07-15
It's really exciting. Which project has already switched? Which project switches right now? Which project will switch tomorrow?
I would really like to follow the adoption of GPLv3. Is there any way to do this? Something like a wiki or a webpage which keeps track of it?
It would be also interesting to hear something from large and important projects like gcc, KDE, GNOME,... What they are planing to do.
EDIT: Fixing typo
Edited 2007-07-09 22:55