8 Sep
2006
8 Sep
'06
12:12 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:04:14AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
What are people here thinking about GPL versions? Do you explicitly want LinuxBIOS to be GPL v2? If so, why? I personally usually use "GPL v2 or later", which will prevent hassle when GPL v3 will be here (and judging from what I've read about GPL v3, that'll be fine with me, too).
In part we are derived from the Linux kernel, and that is v2 only. And big chunks of LinuxBIOS are v2 only for the same reason.
The License file proved is v2 of the License and not every contributor has been willing for v2 or later.
OK, that makes it very unlikely that we'll have a fully "GPL v2 or later" LinuxBIOS (as a whole), so it's GPL v2 and will remain that way.
Cheers, Uwe.