Overhaul of Linux License Could Have Broad Impact

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:31:02PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/technology/30license.html
> 
> Overhaul of Linux License Could Have Broad Impact 
>    
>   http://www.nytimes.com/
>    
>   By STEVE LOHR
>   Published: November 30, 2005
>     The rules governing the use of most free software programs will be
> revised for the first time in 15 years, in an open process that begins
> today.
>   Free software, once regarded as a tiny counterculture in computing, has
> become a mainstream technology in recent years, led by the rising popularity
> of programs like the GNU Linux operating system. 
>   Industry analysts estimate that the value of hardware and software that
> use the Linux operating system is $40 billion. And Linux has become a
> competitive alternative to Microsoft's Windows, especially in corporate data
> centers.

They are _not_ overhauling the linux license.  They are working on
making a next version of the GPL (v3) but it will not apply to the linux
kernel (which is explicitly GPL v2 only, not v2 or later as most GPL
licensed code state).

Lennart Sorensen
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