On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:44:06PM +0200, Stefano Spinucci wrote:
Then, you think that the "Balkanisation menace" is only smelly FUD, and that GPLv2 and v3 can cohesist without problems ???
Yes, that should impose a true problem.
I'm not an expert, but we can have a GNU toolchain v3 and a Kernel v2 ???
A GNU toolchain (in terms of gcc, binutils, etc) being licenced under the GPLv3 and Linux under GPLv2 should be perfectly possible. I'm no expert on the inner workings of Linux and how what is linked against it, but building GPLv2 software with a GPLv3 toolchain is not a problem. Furthermore building proprietary software with the GNU toolchain shouldn't or isn't a problem either. If it was a problem some (or maybe a lot of) software which is not licensed under the terms of the GPL and rather an incompatible license couldn't be built with gcc from a legal point of view, which isn't the case.
Regards,
Stephan