License Committee Report for August 2007

Bdale Garbee bdale at gag.com
Tue Sep 4 23:14:06 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 15:43 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> Russ Nelson wrote:
> >
> > Title: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
> > Submission:
> >
> >   
> <anip>
> > Recommend: approval, placement in Popular category as the successor to
> >   the GPLv2.
> >   
> 
> I note the words "the successor to."  Does this mean that the GPL2 is 
> being moved out of the popular category?

Good question.  I think that would be premature.

While GPLv3 is clearly intended to be the popular successor to the
GPLv2, whether that will actually come to pass isn't known yet.

Bdale




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