GPLv3 Picks Up Traction | Linux Today

GPLv3 Picks Up Traction

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 2, 2007

“For all that a great deal of attention was given to the arrival
of the GPLv3 (Gnu General Public License, version 3), few software
developers announced plans to move their programs to this new
license. Now, open-source programmers are beginning to give the new
license a try.

“When the GPLv3 first arrived, only a handful of programs made
the shift. The most significant of these was Samba making good its
promise to move its popular Windows-compatible file/print server
program to the GPLv3…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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