[Sussex] So... GPL v3, eh?

[Dominic Humphries]

Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson wrote:
> Karl
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:10:48PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
>   
>> Besides, Torvalds isn't too keen on GPLv3. But then again, he's not 
>> really into the "free software" thing - he's much more of a pragmatist.
>>     
>
> I think I heard that (in principal) he was prepared to go to GPLv3, but as
> you say, there is that whole GPLv2 only bit and having to get permission 
> from every kernel developer (or re-write their contributions where permission
> can't be obtained or isn't given).
>  
> Steve
>   
The last word I saw on the subject was basically "It'd be a lot of work 
so we'd need a very good reason" along with a "But I still think v2 is 
the better" - so it's do-able, but not likely to happen any time soon...

Dominic