updating the GPL's status in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category ?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> writes:
> While working on my last email, I noticed that
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category lists GPL/LGPL 3 as
> 'uncategorized', and superseded licenses does not include GPL/LGPL v2.
> Given that Black Duck says that GPL3 is now the fifth most popular
> license[1], surpassing several of the licenses in the 'popular or
> widely used' category, and that its maintainer considers it
> superseded, it seems like it is probably time to go ahead and move v3
> to 'popular/widely used' and v2 to 'superseded' (especially if someone
> is editing the list to deal with my other email.)

GPLv2 has not been superseded - the Linux kernel, for instance, is still
under "GPL version 2 or later" and not "3 or later", because Linus
Torvalds disagrees with several of the changes made between v2 and v3.

DES
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