Six more companies adopt GPLv3 termination language

Red Hat has announcedthat six more companies (CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, andSUSE) have agreed to apply the GPLv3 termination conditions (wherein aviolator's license is automatically restored if the problem is fixed in atimely manner) to GPLv2-licensed code. "GPL version 3 (GPLv3)introduced an approach to termination that offers distributors of the codean opportunity to correct errors and mistakes in license compliance. Thisapproach allows for enforcement of license compliance consistent with acommunity in which heavy-handed approaches to enforcement, including forfinancial gain, are out of place."