For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Sep 9 10:10:23 UTC 2007


Quoting Zac Bowling (zac at zacbowling.com):

> People are still releasing software under GPLv2 and will not or cannot
> upgrade to GPLv3 (such is the case with the Linux kernel which can't
> be changed to GPLv3 without securing the approval of every single
> contributor that ever sent a patch in). 

I contest your premise, and point you to Catherine and Eric Raymond's
explanation about why this widely held view is incorrect:
http://catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html#id2852366




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