July 1, 2007 at 04:11GNU GPLv3 and GNU LGPLv3
Two days ago, the licenses indicated by me in the title of the license were officially published, what do they bring to us?
On the one hand, these are licenses that will finally protect users of free software from patents. And on the other hand ...
On the other hand, we face a great danger. Our kernel is under GPLv2 only (the Linux kernel), while GNU libc (glibc) is released under LGPLv2 or later everything is fine, but at the moment when GNU libc is released under LGPL v3 only (or later) we get the inability to link with products under GPLv2 only, including the kernel, and I want to remind you that GNU libc uses sound inclusions.
There is also a big problem, in the case of the release of glibc GPLv3 only and with everything related to Qt, because Qt GPLv2 only can not be linked to the GPLv3 product ...
What are we preparing new licenses for? What rake stand? What are your opinions, colleagues?
On the one hand, these are licenses that will finally protect users of free software from patents. And on the other hand ...
On the other hand, we face a great danger. Our kernel is under GPLv2 only (the Linux kernel), while GNU libc (glibc) is released under LGPLv2 or later everything is fine, but at the moment when GNU libc is released under LGPL v3 only (or later) we get the inability to link with products under GPLv2 only, including the kernel, and I want to remind you that GNU libc uses sound inclusions.
There is also a big problem, in the case of the release of glibc GPLv3 only and with everything related to Qt, because Qt GPLv2 only can not be linked to the GPLv3 product ...
What are we preparing new licenses for? What rake stand? What are your opinions, colleagues?
