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GPL 3 Forking Risks Discussed

Posted by Hemos on from the much-thunder-and-lightning dept.

sebFlyte writes ""I fear a lot of unpleasant forking action when the GPLv3 comes out." The words of Debian maintainer Matthew Palmer. ZDNet has an interesting look at the possibility of forking when GPLv3 emerges, with lots of reassurance from Eben Moglen (the FSF's chief lawyer)."

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  1. Pro-fork!!! by Duncan3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Forking is one of the greatest things about open source, we need more of it!!!

    I mean, if it wasn't for duplicating effort, everything would work already, Microsoft would be dead, and what would people do for hobbies? If it wasnt for reinventing the wheel, what would the young coders do? And don't even mention what would happen if we didn't rewrite all the code in a new language every few years - no jobs!

    Forking, reinvention, and recoding - love them!

    How many IM clients in Sourceforge the days I wonder, up to 1k yet?

    --
    - Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
  2. You knew it was coming... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    1) License fork
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

  3. Terri Shavio dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dateline: florida. Vegetable Terri Shavio has just been run over by Stephen King!!

    Film at 11...

  4. Why should I care what license you use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    /. has told me EULAs are meaningless, as are copyright laws. So why should I even bother following this thing called the "GPL?" Why are some licenses bad but this one is okay?

    I'll never understand /.