Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel will remain GPL v2

Scott (angrykeyboarder) geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Thu Jan 17 05:27:52 GMT 2008


In 2c8763bb0801151722j54e6a800i666926841332048a at mail.gmail.com on Tue, 15
Jan 2008 19:22:08 -0600, Conrad Knauer spake thusly:

> On Jan 15, 2008 6:03 PM, Toby Smithe <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>> > "Torvalds has also previously said there is at least one thing that
>> > might make him consider recommending to Linux's copyright owners that
>> > they change to GPL v3: if Sun Microsystems releases OpenSolaris under
>> > GPL v3." (still old news, but... it appears that's exactly what Sun
>> > is going to do next:
>> > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Sun-to-License-OpenSolaris-
Under-GPLv3/
>> > Interesting times indeed.)
>>
>> Quite old indeed. At first I was confused, as I read the article while
>> it was still the 15th of January, but the date on the page said 16th.
>> Wondering why they released the page early, and presuming them to be in
>> a different timezone, I then noticed the year, which shows the article
>> to be pretty much one year old, today.
> 
> LOL!  Looks like I got confused by the date! ^_-;
> 
> Sorry :)
> 
> CK

Meanwhile back to the *original* subject/article...

Via my Digg http://preview.tinyurl.com/2o3gpt

or without...

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