On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:33 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote: > Why the move to GPLv3. I am not sure how many in the community see this > as a problem, but we do. > Canonical's licensing policy is to use whatever licence is currently recommended by the Free Software Foundation, that is v3 of the GPL.
> As a policy many don't use GPLv3 software because its not viewed as > industry friendly. > As I'm sure you're away, Canonical has activities in the mobile and embedded fields and many partners in this area. I'm not aware of the "industry unfriendly" nature that you speak of. > Moreover, if you plan on Upstart being truly widely used and a true > replacement for SysV Init, it should match the Linux Kernel Licensing > whatever that might be. So that it really is part of the base core Linux > infrastructure that it is convenient for everyone to use together. > The kernel is only one very small part of the "base core Linux infrastructure", the C Library, Toolchain, Core utilities etc. are a larger part and they are all increasingly GPLv3 at this point. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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