Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ George Ellison ] on Wednesday 27 September 2006 03:26 \__
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
FSF Responds to Misunderstandings about GPLv3
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| I am going to reproduce the FSF response to recent misunderstandings
| about GPLv3 in its entirety. I think you will be able to see how
| seriously the kernel developers' statement misunderstood what the GPLv3
| says and what it does.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060925204515114
Anybody else at this point just want to see the FSF and the kernel team
duke it out in a steel cage? It seems like the only way this is ever
going to get resolved.
There is also disagreement internally.
http://lwn.net/Articles/200656/
I really don't buy it from that link. Bruce Perens hasn't had an
independent thought since about 1999 or so.
I have been reminded that GPLv3 means no TiVo, HD-DVD players, as well as
some phones. I begin to wonder if compliance with the awful trend is the
better way.
Ultimately, if they don't want you to hack it, you won't be able to.
Whether it uses a free software operating system or not is irrelevant to
that (if the kernel adopted v3, you'd see a lot more people going to
VxWorks or one of the BSD's, and since when is keeping *our* hands clean
some kind of noble goal?). At least this way, the devs get code back.
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