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Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 11, 2007 7:42 UTC (Sun) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris by b3timmons
Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Regarding this issue, it seems that the Linux kernel has a lot of v2+ code in it, perhaps as much as half.

http://6thsenseless.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-much-linux-k...


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Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 12, 2007 1:50 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Note that, regardless of what license is specified in a particular file, if the file is a derivative work of a GPLv2 work, then it could only be distributed under GPLv2...

Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 12, 2007 3:24 UTC (Mon) by notamisfit (subscriber, #40886) [Link]

How much of the modern kernel could be considered a derived work of
Linus's original code?

Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 12, 2007 4:36 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

he isn't the only one who doesn't want the GPLv3.

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