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Re:Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,00... by rablo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @01:17PM (#17409957)
Why should the Linux foundation be full of FLOSS sticklers? Not even Linus cares that much about freedom, as his refusal to licence Linux under the GPL3 shows
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Re:Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,00... by ehonda on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:48PM (#17410733)
Linus explains his reasoning on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU
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Re:Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,00... by trasz on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:31PM (#17410601)
Relicensing Linux as GPLv3, even if actually possible (GPL is incompatible with everything that's not a subset of GPL, including other versions of GPL: GPLv2 is not compatible with GPLv3) would be unacceptable to many commercial players. It wouldn't be end of the world - most big customers, from RedHat to Android folks already have to maintain their own forks anyway - but it would hurt in the long run.
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