Samba will move to GPLv3
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| The Samba team will continue to provide security fixes to the GPLv2
| versions, but new features will be added only to the GPLv3 versions,
| the team said.
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| The Free Software Foundation has already released a number of elements
| of its Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) project under GPLv3, including the widely
| used "tar" command for compressing and decompressing files.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195601.html
Related and recent:
Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3
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| Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General
| Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide
| support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November
| with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070705/tc_zd/210987
Apache Foundation Co-Founder Likes GPLv3
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| "This what Apache has long wanted because we do want them
| [GPL-oriented developers] to use it [Apache code], and we
| didn't like even considering the prospect of GPL-only
| re-implementations of our works just for compatibility's
| sake." GLPv3, he added, "is good news, from my perspective."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/apache_foundati.html
MS: Dancing as fast as it can to try to get away from GPLv3
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| Want to laugh? Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3" -- they think they
| can so declare, like an emperor, and it becomes fiat. It's not so easy.
| I gather Microsoft's lawyers have begun to discern the GPL pickle they
| are in.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070705205728953
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