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On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:35:11PM +0000, Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 03/02/07, David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >* IF significant parts of GNU/Linux get relicensed under GPLv3;
>
>
> Linux cannot realistically be relicensed. There are far too many people to
> seek approval from, and many of them are dead. I'm not sure who holds the
> copyrights to GNU, but presuming it's not entirely the FSF then GNU will not
> be totally relicensed either.
Most GNU software is licenced under "GPLv2 or later", so permission has
already been granted to release under the GPLv3. Linux is specifically
only licenced under the GPLv2; I don't think Linus liked the idea of
someone else being able to relicence Linux without any input from him at
all.
bma
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