Messages in this thread |  | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:47:07 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement |
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Hi!
> And given that Stallman has announced that the new LGPL will be (to > use programming terms) a subclass of GPLv3, it means that the LGPLv3 > is by extension incompatible with the GPLv2. So that means that there > will have to be two different versions of glibc (and every other > shared library) shipped with every distributions --- one which is > GPLv2, and one which is GPLv3. And this fork is going to be forced by > the FSF!
Whats the problem? FSF does not do any programming itself. It will force a fork, but world will just ignore the fork for glibc.
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