Novell's IRC session on the Microsoft deal [LWN.net]

Novell's IRC session on the Microsoft deal

Posted Nov 28, 2006 7:10 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
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<Nat_> We think it's better if the GPLv3 is accepted by lots of companies and individuals and projects
<Nat_> Instead, he and Richard are using the community energy to try to get people to adopt the previously-controversial GPLv3 (which we support also)
<adrianL> bgerber: the reasons why GPLv3 is not liked for Novell is also valid for other companies. So, in the current state it would not be used by a large number of companies atm, I fear
<Nat_> Obviously we don't want to spend our time forking and maintaining parallel branches of glibc, gcc, etc
<Nat_> But it's really hard to discuss GPLv3 considering it doesn't exist yet

We love and support GPLv3. Most companies don't like the GPLv3 and we don't either. Certainly we don't want to fork every single GPLv3 program but we can't rule it out.

That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me. :)

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Novell's IRC session on the Microsoft deal

Posted Nov 28, 2006 8:07 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I see no problems there. Their position is quite clear: we hate GPLv3, but not enough to "take our marbles and go home". Not yet anyway (perhaps if the final version will be sufficiently different we'll do take our marbles and go home).

That's normal reaction for most corporations. GPLv3 is designed to protect user at the expense of corporations - why the hell corporations will like it ?

Acceptance is enough...