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Re: Micros*ft deal



El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 21:40 +0200, Robert Millan escribió:
> > 
> > I believe our silence says it all, no? If they want to donate us money
> > for no 'carte blanche' back good,
> 
> Their donations are welcome, their deals aren't.  In fact, we could even lose
> our permission to use GPLv3 software if we did that.
> 
> > otherwise I don't think it's worth
> > write a PR and help them spread their FUD, IMHO.
> 
> On the contrary; the objective would be to dismiss their FUD.

  The basic problem is that since GPLv3 has been yet released, we are
releasing de-facto GPLv3 software, in every piece licensed as "GPL v2 or
any later". I can be using a ig chunk of Debian as GPLv3, and nobody can
dismiss this right now.

-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo@debian.org



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