Craig Burton

So far, Hewlett-Packard prefers the earlier GPL, raising the specter that two versions of the license will survive.

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LWN.net / HP balks at patent provision in GPL update (ZDNet)

According to this ZDNet article , HP is worried about the patent covenant in the GPLv3 draft. " 'Suppose somebody added into the Linux kernel some feature that might go into a Linux distribution, (a feature) we had intended to retain as a differentiator and that we were not expecting was going to become open source,' [HP attorney Scott] Peterson said. ... #

// posted by Craig @ 6:42 AM