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Dave_L
GPLv3

  • 2007/6/16 22:51

  • Dave_L

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Quote:
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Thursday, May 31, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most widely used free software license. The Foundation will hear comments on the latest draft for 29 days, and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.


http://www.fsf.org/news/gpl3dd4-released

XOOPS is licensed, I think, under GPLv2. Should we switch to GPLv3 after that license is released?

You may want to read the article linked at the above page, "Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3".
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jdseymour
Re: GPLv3

Can't truly say until I read the whole draft, but I do know that there were some things that Linus Torvalds rejected version 3 and stated that Linux will remain under version 2.

See the news item HERE.
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Dave_L
Re: GPLv3

  • 2007/6/16 23:08

  • Dave_L

  • XOOPS is my life!

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Torvalds likes the latest draft of GPLv3 better, although he still seems to favor v2:

http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/11/1322215&from=rss
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jdseymour
Re: GPLv3

Here is another Linus e-mail conversation on the subject -

Linux: Linus on the GPL, BSD, Tivo and the FSF

Seems most of the dispute has to do with hardware tied to GPLed software. (remember Linus was a hardware engineer before a software developer.)

Makes for a drawn out but interesting read.

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