Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 30, 2007 01:55 AM
Not quite. You're misunderstanding how software licenses work. The FSF holds copyrights on the GNU operating system. What this means is when the FSF releases versions of GNU programs under GPLv3, Novell (and companies who make deals like Novell did) will have to maintain the GPLv2 versions of these programs in order to keep a competitive edge, because they won't be eligible to use the GPLv3 versions. Novell aren't prepared to make this sort of commitment. They just simply don't have the resources.
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Re:No "grandfather clause" for Novell!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 30, 2007 01:55 AM#