On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, jeffry s <paragasu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > forgive me for my stupidness. i am quite confuse with law thing > > and gpl, gplv2 and gplv3 or gnu proven hard for me to understand. > > anyone can point me a comparison between all this? > > GPL is the (GNU) General Public License. > > GPLv2/GPLv3 are the second/third versions, containing > modifications, ratifications, and clarifications. There may be some > other ifications in there that I'm forgetting as well. > > GNU is a recursive acronym (as PHP now is for PHP Hypertext > Preprocessor). It stands for GNU's Not Unix, and is an operating > system. It's often confused with the organization from which it > receives primary focus (and shares the founder: Richard Stallman), > known as the FSF - the Free Software Foundation. > > > a simple explanation easy for baby to digest.. :) > > Now go get burped and have Mommy change your diaper. ;-P > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Forensic Services, Senior Unix Engineer > 1+ (570-) 362-0283 > what is the difference between gpl, gplv2 and gplv3 ? actually.. baby is a name of a monkey. sure it doesnt need a diaper... :p
