[Announce] GnuPG 2.0.5 released

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jul 6 17:10:36 CEST 2007


On Fri,  6 Jul 2007 15:40, brian at briansmith.org said:

> Why was the license switched to GPLv3? And, who made this decision?

The FSF towers.  

Even without being an FSF copyrighted GNU package I would have done
that.  The GPLv3 has some weaknesses but it makes some things clearer
and adjusts for the changed legal environment we have encountered over
the last decade.  It is a good license.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner





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