Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux (follow-up to

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Dec 1998 11:58:12 GMT

Followup to: <367CE115.719BE9C0@teleteam.net>
By author: Trever Adams <highlander@teleteam.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Anders said:
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>
>
> If so, one would "just" have to convince FSF to change the license and
> produce a version 3 of it and all GPL'ed programs would follow. I think.
>
> ***
>
> Nice try. If it says that paragraph, then I can still use it under the
> GPL version 2, which would give me full rights.
>

That's right, but you can grant additional rights in a new release.

-hpa

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