Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch. We're growing our market opportunity by steadfastly open sourcing the entirety of our software portfolio -- from the Solaris OS to Java developer tools -- and now we're taking the next step by open sourcing the world's most innovative microprocessor under the GPL. Giving our customers more choice and driving community innovation expands our economic opportunity and is forcing our competitors to sit up and take notice -- we are back on offense.
Quotes about gpl (6 Quotes)
The free world welcomes Sun's decision to use the Free Software Foundation's GPL.
Version 2 has now been running for nearly 15 years without substantial modification. It GPL 2 has successfully been used to go from a world in which free software was a very marginal community to one in which everyone, everywhere is aware of it.
He's the one who ultimately gets to decide what's in GPL, but he can't force anyone to use the license. He can ask that there be a bonfire in the square and burn all the impure software, but whether or not people show up for the bonfire is to be determined.
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The default is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.
Conversion isn't going to happen. I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code.