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

Riley Williams (jello@waste.org)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:08:42 -0600 (EST)

> Sure it can... virtually all GPL'd software is "GPL version 2, **or,
> at your option, any later version**".

Would it be possible for IBM to release a License, and call it GPL
Version 3 (30, 300), and use that? Or would the GNU project be the only
ones who could release a new GPL that would be legally binding?

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