Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161053AbWI2M43 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161061AbWI2M43 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:29 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:12307 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161053AbWI2M42 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:47:07 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Theodore Tso , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Message-ID: <20060929124707.GB4931@ucw.cz> References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <20060927123247.GA14668@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060927123247.GA14668@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 20 Hi! > And given that Stallman has announced that the new LGPL will be (to > use programming terms) a subclass of GPLv3, it means that the LGPLv3 > is by extension incompatible with the GPLv2. So that means that there > will have to be two different versions of glibc (and every other > shared library) shipped with every distributions --- one which is > GPLv2, and one which is GPLv3. And this fork is going to be forced by > the FSF! Whats the problem? FSF does not do any programming itself. It will force a fork, but world will just ignore the fork for glibc. -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/