:Linux Official, Microsoft Give Thumbs-Down to GPLv3
Linux Official, Microsoft Give Thumbs-Down to GPLv3 Jul 6, 2007, 12 :45 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (9905 reads) (Other stories by Paul Krill)
"The new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 is not a fit for Linux because switching would require permission from the kernel's thousands of de facto owners, a maintainer of the SCSI portion of the kernel said on Thursday. Also, Microsoft released a statement that the company has no GPLv3 obligations.
"Although the earlier GPLv2 has been used with Linux, GPLv3, released by the Free Software Foundation June 29, presents problems, according to James Bottomley, gatekeeper of the Linux Kernel SCSI Maintainership, which governs disk storage access in the kernel..."
