Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 27, 2006 12:27 UTC (Wed) by robilad (guest, #27163)
In reply to: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com) by mingo
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)

That is exactly the same way with GPLv2, though.

You can, if you feel so inclined, strip the additional permissions to you granted in libgcc's license, or strip those granted to you for g++'s standard libraries, or even those in gcj.

You can even take LGPLd code, and convert it to GPLv2 licensed code, and accordingly turn the glibc into a GPLd work, or GNOME, or whatever LGPL licensed piece of code you find out there.

If there was merit to your claim, we would be seeing that LGPLd projects 'gravitate' towards GPLv2, and that GPLd projects strip off their exceptions, and all that.

I haven't seen any of that over the past years. In fact, libgmp went from GPL to LGPL with FSF's blessing. Ogg ended up being BSD licensed with FSF's blessing. Most of KDE libs, like the HTML component, are LGPLd and happily staying that way. And so on.