From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751139AbWATSgT (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:36:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751140AbWATSgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:36:18 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:37307 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139AbWATSgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:36:18 -0500 Message-ID: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:49:44 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: GPL V3 and Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cudos to Stallman, The patent retaliation clause is exactly what has been missing. The inclusion of custom binaries was a little vague, but the net of it is that the end user can combine the separate parts, and have the freedom to do so given the GPL3 terms. Any concensus on whether Linux will move to GPL3? I support adoption and congrats to Stallman -- A++++. Jeff