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Re:Nano is no longer a GNU project by mkesper on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:12AM (#11954063)
If your licence is GPLv2 only (like for example the linux kernel), there is NO upgrade path.
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Re:Nano is no longer a GNU project by ArneBab on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:23AM (#11954155)
Mercurial went the hard road and asked all contributors to relicense under GPLv2 or later.
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Re:Nano is no longer a GNU project by cyphar on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:30PM (#11955116)
Actually, a lot of code in the Linux kernel is GPLv2-or-later. Its just that there's a lot of GPLv2-only code that means the final product is GPLv2-only. In fact there was a time when Linus asked people to show their opinion on the licensing exactly by doing that and specifying in every file what the author licensed their changes under.
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