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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by pabs3 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:23AM (#24786924)
It wouldn't change the development situation, but Linux distros wouldn't have lots of GPL violations and be ignoring those GPL violations.
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Re:Cups Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingl... by ghaff on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:20AM (#24788917)
Apache 2.0 software is all over the place in Linux distributions. And it's probably the license that most lawyers would recommend for a permissive license. The reason it's not compatible with GPLv2 is the patent termination and indemnification provisions (in the view of the FSF). The code isn't in the kernel though.
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