GPL v3
Michael Bernstein
webmaven at cox.net
Thu Jan 26 01:29:13 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 17:08 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Wilson, Andrew scripsit:
>
> > Au contraire, my guess is that soon after there is a final GPL v3,
> > the bulk of FSF/GNU code will be relicensed v3-only (and this is a
> > lot of code).
>
> You may be right, but FSF code is a tiny minority of all GPLed code.
That's like saying a keystone is only a small part of an arch. Obviously
true, but besides the point.
FSF code (such as gcc, to pick a prominent example) is probably
infrastructural in some non-trivial way to most other FOSS projects.
- Michael Bernstein
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