On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:04:14AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > What are people here thinking about GPL versions? Do you explicitly want > > LinuxBIOS to be GPL v2? If so, why? I personally usually use "GPL v2 or > > later", which will prevent hassle when GPL v3 will be here (and judging > > from what I've read about GPL v3, that'll be fine with me, too). > > In part we are derived from the Linux kernel, and that is v2 only. > And big chunks of LinuxBIOS are v2 only for the same reason. > > The License file proved is v2 of the License and not every contributor > has been willing for v2 or later.
OK, that makes it very unlikely that we'll have a fully "GPL v2 or later" LinuxBIOS (as a whole), so it's GPL v2 and will remain that way. Cheers, Uwe. -- Uwe Hermann http://www.hermann-uwe.de http://www.it-services-uh.de | http://www.crazy-hacks.org http://www.holsham-traders.de | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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