Posted by: Anonymous
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on October 25, 2007 11:45 PM
No, the FUD mentioned in the article was NOT "anything that is remotely critical of GPL3".
The article was clearly referring to people who try to claim GPLv3 has a slow adoption rate, and therefore it must be a failure, since Apache and FreeBSD and every other open source project haven't rushed out to adopt the license the month after it was released.
The people making that argument are either disingenuous or simply don't understand the free software movement or the practical realities of how open source software is produced and licensed.
Why do you think the FSF has a "fear" of GPLv3 not being adopted. That's silly. The only thing to be afraid of is that the weaker protections in GPLv2 might allow some companies such as Tivo and Microsoft to continue playing games.
For many projects GPLv2 is a perfectly adequate license and there is no reason not to continue with it.
For some projects such as Samba a switch to GPLv3 makes lots of sense as a defensive move.
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Re: FSF Compliance Lab online meeting addresses license questions
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 63.205.61.22] on October 25, 2007 11:45 PMThe article was clearly referring to people who try to claim GPLv3 has a slow adoption rate, and therefore it must be a failure, since Apache and FreeBSD and every other open source project haven't rushed out to adopt the license the month after it was released.
The people making that argument are either disingenuous or simply don't understand the free software movement or the practical realities of how open source software is produced and licensed.
Why do you think the FSF has a "fear" of GPLv3 not being adopted. That's silly. The only thing to be afraid of is that the weaker protections in GPLv2 might allow some companies such as Tivo and Microsoft to continue playing games.
For many projects GPLv2 is a perfectly adequate license and there is no reason not to continue with it.
For some projects such as Samba a switch to GPLv3 makes lots of sense as a defensive move.
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