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Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 12, 2007 1:50 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)
In reply to: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris by kripkenstein
Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

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...


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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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