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Alan Cox backs GPLv3
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2007-05-13, 03:28 PM

Quote:Open source guru Alan Cox has voiced his support for the controversial version 3.0 of the GNU General Public Licence in an exclusive podcast interview with Computer Weekly. Cox was once regarded as the Linux number two behind Linus Torvalds because of his work maintaining the Linux kernel, and he is still a major force in the open source community. But whereas Torvalds has openly criticised GPL 3.0, and said he will not be signing up to the new licence, Cox is fully behind it.
 

Read more - [/url][url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17901/Linu...New-GNU-Licence]http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17901/Linu...New-GNU-Licence

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2007-05-13, 11:03 PM

That's a bit of a lie, Linus has confirmed that the redrafting of GPLv3 was too his liking, it was the original that cause issues. I believe this latest draft has been very much welcomed.

 

See [/url][url=http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6171300-7.html]http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6171300-7.html

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2007-05-13, 11:37 PM
Yeah, I think the article must be out of date as per Linus' stance as he did make it very clear that he was 'pretty pleased' with the latest draft.
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