Misc. bits.

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Jul 10 14:03:44 UTC 2007


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:03:27PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>   
>> First I trust everyone here knows that the Free
>> Software Foundation has officially released the GNU
>> Public Licence version 3. The GPL version 2 is the
>> licence that most of the software a typical GNU/Linux
>> system is released under. Provisions in the GPL 3 will
>> make things ... interesting ... for a few companies,
>> such as Microsoft, Novell, TiVo and Xandros (all who
>> have in one way or another attempted to exploit
>> loopholes in GPL 2, that are now closed in GPL 3).  
>>     
>
> So we go from loopholes we know about to loopholes yet to be discovered.
> It's just like upgrading from software with known bugs to software with
> unknown bugs.  No wonder some people aren't sure about it. :)
>   

Please make a list of all unknown loopholes.  ;-)


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