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Linus on GPL3 In Forbes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rehashing-bad-blood dept.

musicon writes "In an interview via e-mail with Forbes, Torvalds discusses GPLv3, digital rights management and sharks with laser beams. From the article: 'I'm sure changes will be made [to GPLv3]. The fact that the FSF and I have some fundamentally different views of what the GPLv2 was all about makes me worry that we won't find a good agreement on the next version.'"

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  1. Re: From my vantage point by XanC · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From my vantage point (and I may well be missing something important), it looks like the anti-GPL3 sentiment comes from a misinterpretation about encryption keys. If that's clarified, either in people's heads or the wording or both, I don't see any real negatives.

    I see a GPL that prevents companies from using DRM (which wasn't around for v2) to get around GPL requirements. Basically those same requirements that we liked from v2.

  2. Sweet! Zealot B.S. for the 7,000th time by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Insightful
    GPLv3 is closing loopholes, see the TiVo example, by which people could use other people's work and ignore their obligations under the license, i.e. by making the code modifiable but making modified versions of the code unrunnable.

    If Linus is fine with TiVo's method of coopting the kernel and making it for all practical purposes unmodifiable, that's his business. But lots of other people have contributed code to free software and are not.

    PS: this is how I understand it so far. My opinion is subject to revision

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  3. I was thinking gcc. by cduffy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Firefox is only on workstations -- headless servers typically won't have a web browser; my company's certainly don't. I was thinking gcc would be a better candidate: Not only is it installed on a strong majority of Linux-based systems, but also on a large number of traditional Unix systems elsewhere.

  4. Re:Couple of things here... by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For them, free software is less about open source and open development and more about a form of political agenda.

    Dude, copyright and patents are a political agenda by identity.

    KFG