GPL3 is a poison pill for most corporations, thanks to the draconian patent terms and generally unfriendly stance towards any other OSS license. Apple has a blanket policy of not allowing any GPL3/LGPL3 use without special authorization, and an absolute prohibition of inclusion of GPL3/LGPL3 licensed software or documentation in any products. On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: > What are the advantages of GPL2 against GPL3? > > Till > > On 06/24/2014 09:27 PM, Ira McDonald wrote: >> Hi Till, >> >> I agree with Mike about preferring GPL2 over GPL3, from comments >> from some of my colleagues at printer and OS vendors. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Michael Sweet > > wrote: >> >> Till, >> >> GPL3 is fine when linking against libcups (LGPL2). I'm not 100% >> sure about the other libraries he'll need to use. >> >> That said, I am not a fan of the GPL3 and would prefer this be >> released under GPL2. > _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair