Star Moglen: GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Nov 2005 13:41 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source Users will be free to comment on the upcoming complex and technical draft versions of the GNU General Public License 3.0 in an easy way, according to Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. However, Moglen said Wednesday, speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, the rewrite of the GPL is not an election and there will be no voting on its clauses.
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No shelf life for GPL2
by paul.michael.bauer on Thu 3rd Nov 2005 16:06 UTC
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2005-07-06

There is no shelf life for GPL2. Just because GPL3 is out, does not mean you have to use the license.
It is likely that Linux will remain GPL2.

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RE: No shelf life for GPL2
by ckknight on Thu 3rd Nov 2005 17:09 in reply to "No shelf life for GPL2"
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2005-07-06

Linus has made it clear that linux will remain under a modified GPL2 license. The modification is to make sure that user-space applications are allowed to be any license, to avoid any confusion.

There is also no section in it that says "GPL 2 or higher"

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