Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

Nicolas Mailhot
2007-06-15T17:45:28Z

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Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 13:27 -0400, Rob Landley a écrit :

> Er, yes and no.
>
> The GPL evolved from the "Emacs License", and _that_ was heavily influenced by
> Stallman's fight with James Gosling over Gosling revoking permission to use
> Gosmacs code in GNU Emacs after Gosling sold his codebase to a commercial
> entity.
>
> http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/

no and yes :)

The second paragraph of this page makes the GNU philosophy the other
source of the GPL, and that was definitively influenced by the printer
incident

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Nicolas Mailhot

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