An Interview with Jeremy Allison

"You have the distinct honor of being one of the first major projects to adopt the GNU General Public License, Version 3. When did you do that?

"Well, we had this discussion about it inside the team, after the license was released. And we were fans of it in the first place. We were on the committees that helped develop it. And so you know there was various discussion about it internally. But, essentially, we liked it enough to decide that this was, this was a good thing to do for the project and for our users..."

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