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

Zack Brown (zbrown@lynx.neu.edu)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:24:23 -0500 (EST)

If Richard Stallman gets mad at the linux community for not using the term
gnu/linux and decides to release a new version of the GPL that undoes its
current meaning (and e.g. allows proprietary forking etc), thus affecting
all programs currently licenced under the GPL, what could anyone do about
that? And please don't say, "oh, he would *never* do something like that."

Shake in your boots.

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.

-- /usr/src/linux/COPYING, line 308-311

Zack

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/