Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
Edgar Toernig (froese@gmx.de)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:44:25 +0100
Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
> Isn't the following paragraph usually included in GPL'ed stuff?
>
> 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.
That's the reason I release my sources with the following text:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
Ciao, ET.
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