A research firm serving the mobile phone industry has published an 18-page whitepaper about open source licensing. Entitled "GPLv2 vs. GPLv3," the paper examines the meteoric rise of open source software, and the forces that shaped each license, before concluding with an extremely detailed point-by-point comparison.
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pravi
40 weeks 3 days 2 hours 56 min ago
"The generally accepted best practice
"The generally accepted best practice is that a derivative work is not created when statically linking GPL software to non-GPL software."
page 5, bottom right
This is totally incorrect, I think.
A similar comment here
http://www4.osnews.com/thread?275316
More serious flaws in the document here
http://www4.osnews.com/comments/18701