DOS ain't dead - What does the GPL allow?

What does the GPL allow? (Announce)

posted by marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:49

> I know BSD and Apple dislike v3 (and thus stick to GCC 4.2.1 or older), >
> but otherwise there's no clear consensus.

The next release, FreeBSD 9.0 is going to be LLVM based, with the core distribution being GPLv3 free. The older versions are indeed stuck on pre GPLv3.

The other BSDs are studying and sympathetic about FreeBSD's move, and are looking at it (but afaik haven't made a decision. Which is funny, I always had OpenBSD pegged as the first to make the move)

> inclined or skilled) says that v3 only fixed some loopholes (and
> incorporated LGPL), e.g. MS patent licenses w/ Novell and TiVo-ization.

Both seriously impact employment of open source oriented professionals, that are mostly employed by hardware manufacturers or the Googles of this world.

So many believe it will hurt open source adoptation (and its financing, since contrary to popular belief, most is done by people on big business' payrol), more than it ever will solve. But it is a matter of principle for the FSF.

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Complete thread:

mTCP Open Source release - mbbrutman, 27.05.2011, 23:47 (Announce)
- mTCP GPL - ecm, 27.05.2011, 23:58
  - GPLv3 - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 00:20
    - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 00:55
      - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:09
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:18
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:25
        download, compile, ... - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:30
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 09:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 15:32
        What does the GPL allow? - ecm, 30.05.2011, 16:08
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 16:30
        GPL something - ecm, 30.05.2011, 17:08
        GPL something - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 18:05
        theoretical licensing problems and such - ecm, 30.05.2011, 18:28
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:34
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:33
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 31.05.2011, 13:59
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 01:16
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 01:53
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 02:17
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 15:49
        What does the GPL allow? - Rugxulo, 30.05.2011, 18:14
        mTCP in DOSEMU; Linux kernel developers' GPLv2-only reasons - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:49
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:41
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 04:18
        What does the GPL allow? - Japheth, 30.05.2011, 18:47
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - ecm, 30.05.2011, 19:20
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 19:54
        editing - ecm, 30.05.2011, 20:03
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:35
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 22:56
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 02.06.2011, 16:10
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 03.06.2011, 04:12
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 03.06.2011, 13:36
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - Rugxulo, 03.06.2011, 16:45
- mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 31.05.2011, 09:03
  - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 03:11
    - mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 13:14
      - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 15:04
    - polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 16:07
      - polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 17:12
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 17:27
        polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 17:50
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 17:55
        polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 18:39
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 18:49
        polling - Rugxulo, 02.06.2011, 00:37
        polling - ecm, 02.06.2011, 00:52
        polling - Japheth, 02.06.2011, 05:42
        polling - mbbrutman, 04.06.2011, 04:13
        polling - ecm, 04.06.2011, 06:50
        polling - Arjay, 04.06.2011, 10:46
        polling - mbbrutman, 16.07.2011, 22:09
        polling - Ninho, 17.07.2011, 12:59
        polling - mbbrutman, 17.07.2011, 23:05
        polling - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 11:22
        polling - mbbrutman, 18.07.2011, 16:05
        polling - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 17:28
        IGNORE! no text, posting error - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 17:30
        polling - mbbrutman, 18.07.2011, 17:41
        polling - ecm, 21.08.2011, 16:28