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I find this schism very interesting. You have a lot of people now harming the GPLv2 communities by being nice. For instance there is a noticeable push for proje
by the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
I find this schism very interesting. You have a lot of people now harming the GPLv2 communities by being nice. For instance there is a noticeable push for projects to go Apache which is GPLv2 incompatible.
OpenSSL is famously GPL incompatible but now it's only GPLv2 incompatible. Likewise all GPLv3 code is GPLv2 incompatible so you effectively have two worlds that both have similar goals but cannot share code work together. This is particularly striking in the Linux environment where the kernel is v2 licensed and the user land pushes really hard on GPLv3.