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Martin Fink, HPE CEO, on the GPL (youtube.com)
5 points by g1n016399 on March 15, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


A 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.




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