GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing
GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing
Posted Feb 25, 2016 11:39 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: GPLV3 has been a boon for bait-and-switch licensing by Del-
Parent article: Winning the copyleft fight
> Are you cherry-picking unconsciously? As I am sure you know, Apple do not allow GPLv2 software in their app store
I thought I was quite precise. Apple does not have any GPLv3 packages in _Mac OS X_.
I thought I was quite precise. Apple does not have any GPLv3 packages in _Mac OS X_.
Yet they have plenty of GPLv2 packages there. Some packages like bash and rsync are frozen at their last GPLv2 versions.
So yes, while v2->v3 changes might seem trivial to you, they are definitely NOT trivial for a lot of other people.