Comments on: Samba’s Adoption of the GPL v3 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/07/11/sambas-adoption-of-the-gpl-v3/ open source software innovation support centre Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rowan Wilson http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/07/11/sambas-adoption-of-the-gpl-v3/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Rowan Wilson Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:45:46 +0000 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2007/07/11/sambas-adoption-of-the-gpl-v3/#comment-74 <a href="http://www.linux.com/articles/114336" rel="nofollow">Torvalds warmed to later drafts</a>, although he still favours v2. It may be that the Linux kernel ends up dual-licensed under GPL v2 and GPL v3, as that link suggests. Even if the kernel stays GPL v2 though, it wont impede distribution with the newly GPL v3'd Samba. As the GPL v3 poetically puts it: <cite>A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.</cite> The GPL v2 has a similar provision, albeit a less clearly drafted one. Torvalds warmed to later drafts, although he still favours v2. It may be that the Linux kernel ends up dual-licensed under GPL v2 and GPL v3, as that link suggests. Even if the kernel stays GPL v2 though, it wont impede distribution with the newly GPL v3′d Samba. As the GPL v3 poetically puts it:

A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation’s users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.

The GPL v2 has a similar provision, albeit a less clearly drafted one.

]]> By: Ross Gardler http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/07/11/sambas-adoption-of-the-gpl-v3/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Ross Gardler Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:01:17 +0000 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2007/07/11/sambas-adoption-of-the-gpl-v3/#comment-73 <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39249370,00.htm" rel="nofollow">Linux Torvalds has ruled out GPL3</a> on the grounds of an objection to its handling of Digital Rights Management. So, if Linux sticks with GPL2 and Samba has gone to GPL3 what does this mean for future distributions of Linux? Linux Torvalds has ruled out GPL3 on the grounds of an objection to its handling of Digital Rights Management.

So, if Linux sticks with GPL2 and Samba has gone to GPL3 what does this mean for future distributions of Linux?

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