linux-kernel - Re: GPL version 4

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0807171716030.2133@chaos.analogic.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:17:46 -0400
From:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"David Collier-Brown" <davecb@....com>
Cc:	"Morton Harrow" <mharrow@...uxmail.org>,
	"Miod Vallat" <miod@...ine.fr>, <licensing@....org>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <rms@....org>,
	<claire.newman@...onical.com>, <announce@...europe.org>,
	<misc@...nbsd.org>, <ubuntu-users@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	<fedora-list@...hat.com>, <netbsd-users@...bsd.org>,
	<freebsd-questions@...ebsd.org>
Subject: Re: GPL version 4

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Morton Harrow wrote:
>>> Shouldn't GPL versions follow the bright example of TeX, and thus the
>>> next version be 3.1?
>
> To quote Fred Weigel, they should be
> 	3
> 	3.1
> 	3.14
> 	3.141
> 	3.1415
> 	3.14159
>
> --dave
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Nah. Should be
GPL V-infinity
That way there won't be any more.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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