[SLL] Save Novell!

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:53:49AM -0700, Jules Agee wrote:
>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.

That's not strictly true: