Andrew Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd certainly like to see the kernel go GPLv3...granted parts of the > kernel could go anyway without Linus' explicit blessing, but after all > the kernel is a flagship free software project...
Not if GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2. Linus doesn't have much say in the license of the kernel since the different codes are owned by the different authors (unlike FSF software that is owned by FSF). They would either have to track down all the contributors or rewrite the code for the stuff owned by people they can't track down or for people who don't want to relicense their code. And that was the intention of the kernel too, which is why they removed the "..or later" text from the standard license text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
