Am 2007-04-02 20:50:25, schrieb John L Fjellstad: > 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.
..and I think, it is nearly impossible to get several 1000 Developers
and Code-Contributors on the same table to change the GPL version!
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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