[SLL] Save Novell!

[Jules Agee]

Russell Evans wrote:
> I don't understand licensing, but I would think that Debian
> maintainer patches could be gpl v3ed very quickly, quickly verses all
> the projects that make up a distribution moving to gpl v3 at the
> project level. I also think most packages in Debian are patched
> by/for Debian, part of the reason it takes so long for a new Debian
> version to come out, so this possible would be effective in killing
> the deal. I don't know, maybe you can't mix the licenses this way?

Not with GPL. If you have a GPL v2 package, you can't patch it and
license the patch with GPL v3. Modifications are licensed under the same
GPL version as the program you're modifying. The big initial move to
GPL3 will be all the FSF software. Those packages alone will be very
significant in their effect on distributors like Novell.