p2pnet - rss feed: GPLv3 out tomorrow
p2pnet.net news:- The Free Software Foundation has kept to its schedule and will be releasing the GPLv3 tomorrow (June 29).
Estimates suggest more than 50% of Free/Libre and Open Source Software available falls under the GPL, which kept the “either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version” clause.
One notable exception is the Linux kernel which, because the FSF removed it, doesn’t realistically allow changes to licenses (without trying to get the approval of thousands of contributors).
The process that led to this upgrade was very open, bringing in feedback from people who often had very different ideas of how to move forward.
Compatible with additional licenses offered by the GPLv3, this license will be the most influential legally binding document in the software industry.
Russell McOrmond - p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He’s also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
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June 28th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
It’s about time we had a GNU kernel, one which the FSF has primary control over. Linus loves to wield his control over the current linux implementation.
I don’t think the herd will ever get finished, it’s been in development for ten years, and they just started rewriting it from scratch because they didn’t like the particular micro kernel they were using, sigh….
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:52 am
“Reader’s Write”,
I suspect there is enough of us that want diversity that someone will decide to split the OpenSolaris kernel from the userspace applications of OpenSolaris, and make it into replacement packages for the Linux kernel (and related subsystems).
My hope is that now that the GPLv3 is releases that some of the developers will deliberately add in the “GPLv2 or higher” to their submissions (Or use some other GPLv2+GPLv3 compatible license such as the new BSD license) so that at least those submissions will be able to be used in both Linux and other kernels. The Linux community has far more device drivers than anyone else.
I like the userspace software that comes with the various “Linux” distributions, and think the ideal would be an environment with a GPLv3 compatible kernel added to the same userspace as we use today.
In the Keynote for OLS this year, James Bottomley spoke about how diversity is necessary for evolution.
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2007/view_abstract.php?content_key=254
He very specifically spoke about the need for forks in order to evolve, and I see licensing issues as being a perfectly legitimate reason to fork.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:08 am
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