Why is the GPLv3 debate about Linux?
Talked with Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn at Google today. The second Summer of Code is over (with more than 600 students and more than 100 software projects involved).
And of course, the GPLv3 debate came up. Strange that the media makes it seem all about Linux. Chris and I agree -- there are way too many copyright holders in Linux, the kernel, to change licenses now.
In answer to my earlier question about projects with real users ever relicensing, all that the linux-elitists list could come up with was that MySQL was able to change its library license from LGPL to GPL+exception, and Wine went from BSD to LGPL. MySQL gets a copyright assignment, and Wine wasn't production code at the time, and for almost all purposes, as far as I can tell still isn't.
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