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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:22:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Instead of GPL License - Why not LKL? (Linux Kernel License)
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6/15/07, Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've been somewhat following the GPL2 vs. GPL3
> debate
> > and the problem is that it leads to confusion.
> GPL3 is
> > nothing like GPL2 and the GPLx leads people to
> believe
> > that GPL3 is just GPL3 improved.
> >
> > So - just throwing out the idea that if Linus is
> > unhappy with GPL3 that Linux lose the GPLx license
> and
> > call it the Linux Kernel License or LKL for short.
> So
> > LKL could equal GPL2.
> 
> It seems it would require agreement by all copyright
> holders, much
> like the v2->v3 transition would do. If it makes the
> 2->3 transition
> unfeasible, the same may apply here.

Would it still be a problem if the licenses were
exactly the same?


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