Fork ahead...?

Fork ahead...?

Posted Jul 12, 2007 14:54 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128)
In reply to: Fork ahead...? by dfsmith
Parent article: Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases

Well, the scenario you describe would almost certainly run afoul of the GPLv2, because your patent would restrict the rights of downstream users of the software. There has been quite a bit of discussion on this topic, and there's also explicit patent-related language in GPLv2 that covers other cases. Really, the only change in GPLv3 is that a couple of tricky loopholes dreamt up by Microsoft have been fixed, and that everything is much more explicit.

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