On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:21:25 -0500 DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > This is just FUD. Most lawyers will tell you that there is a higher > chance that a new license will be tested in court because it has less > legal precedent. If GPL v2 is so outdated as you claim, then why do > some of the most prominent OSS projects in the world, including the > Linux kernel, still insist upon it and reject the new license? > In Linus' case, he has different priorities than the FSF and they happen to overlap rather poorly with what the FSF set out to improve with GPLv3. Linus' concern is about getting the source code, something the GPLv2 still guarantees pretty well. The FSF however have been more about the ability to modify and improve systems. That's why the GPLv3 contains more clauses to make sure you can not only get the source code, but actually compile it and run it. My point is that the value of GPLv3 depends a lot on what you expect to get out of the license. Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com
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