Eben Moglen to European Commission: Have Faith in the GPLv2

post Category: Linux — sokdbot @ 6:20 pm — post Comments (0)
postDecember 4, 2009

Another voice heard on the European Commissions objection to Oracles purchase of Sun Microsystems. This time, Eben Moglen has weighed in with an analysis of the objections related to the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Moglen disagrees with the commission, and says that the GPLv2 is sufficient to protect the MySQL community apart from Oracle. According to the commission, the GPLv2 provides inadequate protection for third parties to work with MySQL if the deal goes through. This has been supported by Richard M. Stallman, who opposes the deal along with Knowledge Ecology International.

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