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[News] Can Novell Fork GNU and Free Software? Novell Says It Needn't.

  • Subject: [News] Can Novell Fork GNU and Free Software? Novell Says It Needn't.
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:44:48 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Stake in the ground, not a stake in the heart

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| Sam Hiser says Novell is in a lose-lose situation, but that's not necessarily 
| the case. The kernel is staying GPLv2. (Linus Torvalds deciding not to take 
| his 10,000 copyright holders and go v3 is like the driver of an 
| 18-wheeler "deciding" not to do donuts on my lawn.)   
| 
| That leaves development tools, which Novell can always split out into a 
| separate product, the way the Unix vendors did, and a bunch of utilities,  
| which are not moving fast enough to be a problem to maintain.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node%2F805

Novell in denial?

Novell: For us GPLv3 is not a problem

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| Novell welcomed and supported the new GPL version and was planning to include 
| GPLv3 software in its distribution, it was said. There were no provisions in 
| the final version of GPLv3 that would prevent Novell from doing so, the 
| company declared.   
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/92416

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