Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL
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Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL
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Re: Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL
#2A writeup from LWN for those who prefer text:
Re: Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL
#3A writeup from LWN for those who prefer text: https://lwn.net/Articles/660428/
> "If I had been Steve Ballmer, trying to kill Linux, I would have just encouraged people to make more licenses."
Devilish, brilliant, and so obvious in hindsight. I'm glad it didn't happen, but part of me can appreciate the hack on a hypothetical level for how effective it would have been.
> You can take an Apache-licensed project and go make a GPL version of it
Only if you're shooting for GPLv3. Apache 2.0 and GPLv2 are incompatible.