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One practical reason, at this point it's impossible to upgrade. The GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2, and there are major contributors who are either impossibl
by CJefferson 7y ago
One practical reason, at this point it's impossible to upgrade.
The GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2, and there are major contributors who are either impossible to find, or sadly past away. This ignores those who just wouldn't want GPL v3. It would be impossible to untangle these people's code from the rest of the kernel at this point, even if you wanted to rewrite it.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoI thought the question implied alternatives other than upgrading. (?) Not sure, as stated, obviously.
- caseysoftware 7y agoAlmost 10 years ago, I went through the effort of relicensing something from GPL back to BSD as it was originally licensed. I documented some of it here: https://web2project.net/2011/01/web2project-license-change/ https://web2project.net/2011/01/web2project-license-change/