linux-kernel - Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:44:59 +0200
From:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 13:27 -0400, Rob Landley a écrit :

> Er, yes and no.
> 
> The GPL evolved from the "Emacs License", and _that_ was heavily influenced by 
> Stallman's fight with James Gosling over Gosling revoking permission to use 
> Gosmacs code in GNU Emacs after Gosling sold his codebase to a commercial 
> entity.
> 
> http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/

no and yes :)

The second paragraph of this page makes the GNU philosophy the other
source of the GPL, and that was definitively influenced by the printer
incident

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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