Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux (follow-up to

Trever Adams (highlander@teleteam.net)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 05:35:49 -0600

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Anders said:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

If so, one would "just" have to convince FSF to change the license and
produce a version 3 of it and all GPL'ed programs would follow. I think.

***

Nice try. If it says that paragraph, then I can still use it under the
GPL version 2, which would give me full rights.

Trever

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