{"text":"@wonka @osma @ghul @pkal GPLv2 explicitly allows any later version, and removing that is an additional restriction so dubious. It would take a court to sort that question out however, and for Linux it's not likely to ever happen.More importantly though was also the social contract. Linux was built and people contributed on the GPLv2 basis. Changing that would have been shutting doors on existing contributors. That point to me was the salient one Linus made when GPL3 arrived","truncated":false,"created_at":"Mon Dec 29 22:46:10 +0900 2025","in_reply_to_status_id":"11810056","uri":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/etchedpixels\/statuses\/115780218958025919","source":"ActivityPub","source_link":null,"id":11810057,"in_reply_to_user_id":91801,"in_reply_to_screen_name":"wonka","geo":null,"user":{"id":100857,"name":"The Penguin of Evil","screen_name":"etchedpixels","location":null,"description":"Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trainsESO: EtchedPixels &amp; PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)","profile_image_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-48-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-48-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_profile_size":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-96-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_original":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-original-tmp20230222080833.webp","groups_count":0,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":null,"protected":false,"followers_count":0,"friends_count":0,"created_at":"Wed Feb 22 17:08:33 +0900 2023","utc_offset":"0","time_zone":"UTC","statuses_count":118,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@etchedpixels","cover_photo":false,"background_image":false,"profile_link_color":false,"profile_background_color":false,"profile_banner_url":false,"is_local":false,"is_silenced":false,"rights":{"delete_user":false,"delete_others_notice":false,"silence":false,"sandbox":false},"is_sandboxed":false,"favourites_count":0},"statusnet_html":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@wonka\" class=\"u-url mention\">@wonka<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.to\/@osma\" class=\"u-url mention\">@osma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdculture.de\/@ghul\" class=\"u-url mention\">@ghul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/@pkal\" class=\"u-url mention\">@pkal<\/a> GPLv2 explicitly allows any later version, and removing that is an additional restriction so dubious. It would take a court to sort that question out however, and for Linux it's not likely to ever happen.<\/p><p>More importantly though was also the social contract. Linux was built and people contributed on the GPLv2 basis. Changing that would have been shutting doors on existing contributors. That point to me was the salient one Linus made when GPL3 arrived<\/p>","statusnet_conversation_id":6001847,"statusnet_in_groups":false,"external_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/11810057","in_reply_to_profileurl":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@wonka","in_reply_to_ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/wonka","attentions":[{"id":84132,"screen_name":"osma","fullname":"Osma A \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","profileurl":"https:\/\/mas.to\/@osma","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/mas.to\/users\/osma"},{"id":91801,"screen_name":"wonka","fullname":"Wilfried Klaebe","profileurl":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@wonka","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/wonka"},{"id":375620,"screen_name":"pkal","fullname":"Philip","profileurl":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/@pkal","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/users\/pkal"}],"fave_num":0,"repeat_num":0,"is_post_verb":true,"is_local":false,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}