Rabble Rousing Random Ramblings: Is the GPL (V3) released under the GPL?

September 16, 2008

Is the GPL (V3) released under the GPL?

I came across a news item on CNet which mentioned that Google Chrome used stuff (Windows Template Library) from Microsoft that was released under the GPL a few years ago.

When there was talk (sometime in 2007) of the GPL being revised to a new version (3.0), one of the things I wondered about was if the GPL was released under the GPL. i.e. Can someone make changes to the GPL, commit it back & release it under the GPL?

Turns out that you can't. Isn't that like incompatible with the concept of the GPL?

Labels: free software foundation, fsf, gpl, license, random rant

Rambled @ 6:29 PM

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