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Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL

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5 points by g1n016399 10 years ago · 2 comments

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chei0aiV 10 years ago

A writeup from LWN for those who prefer text:

https://lwn.net/Articles/660428/

  • carussell 10 years ago

    > "If I had been Steve Ballmer, trying to kill Linux, I would have just encouraged people to make more licenses."

    Devilish, brilliant, and so obvious in hindsight. I'm glad it didn't happen, but part of me can appreciate the hack on a hypothetical level for how effective it would have been.

    > You can take an Apache-licensed project and go make a GPL version of it

    Only if you're shooting for GPLv3. Apache 2.0 and GPLv2 are incompatible.

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