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SubjectRe: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
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Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> writes:

> It is probably true that as a practical matter, Linux can't be switched
> to a different license, but your claim isn't true in general.


Isn't the following paragraph usually included in GPL'ed stuff?


This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.


If so, one would "just" have to convince FSF to change the license and
produce a version 3 of it and all GPL'ed programs would follow. I think.

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