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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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"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.
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