Richard Fontana blows hot and cold on GPLv3 fork | Linux Today

Richard Fontana blows hot and cold on GPLv3 fork

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Sam Varghese
Jul 10, 2012

A lack of clarity on the part of Red Hat open source licensing and patent counsel Richard Fontana as to whether he has, or has not, created a fork of the GPLv3 free software license has led to well-known free software advocate Bradley Kuhn dissociating himself from the project.

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Sam Varghese

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