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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:47:07 +0000 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Sergey Panov <sipan@...an.org>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Hi! > And given that Stallman has announced that the new LGPL will be (to > use programming terms) a subclass of GPLv3, it means that the LGPLv3 > is by extension incompatible with the GPLv2. So that means that there > will have to be two different versions of glibc (and every other > shared library) shipped with every distributions --- one which is > GPLv2, and one which is GPLv3. And this fork is going to be forced by > the FSF! Whats the problem? FSF does not do any programming itself. It will force a fork, but world will just ignore the fork for glibc. -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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