Linus Speaks Out On GPLv3 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 28, 2006 @08:39AM from the that's-a-spicy-os-dev dept.

Slagged writes to mention the word that Linus Torvalds isn't a fan of the new GPL draft. News.com has the story, and someone purporting to be Linus is causing a ruckus in the Groklaw thread on the subject. From the News.com article: "Say I'm a hardware manufacturer. I decide I love some particular piece of open-source software, but when I sell my hardware, I want to make sure it runs only one particular version of that software, because that's what I've validated. So I make my hardware check the cryptographic signature of the binary before I run it ... The GPLv3 doesn't seem to allow that, and in fact, most of the GPLv3 changes seem to be explicitly designed exactly to not allow the above kind of use, which I don't think it has any business doing."

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Re:not surprising by muyuubyou · 2006-07-28 09:14 · Score: 1, Troll

Times change. The FSF has radicalized their "freedom through coercion" views and is complicating GPL over what's necessary. The more you complicate a license, the more fair use "collateral-damage" you get. There are fair uses for hardware validation, you can't just rule them all out. If your hardware vendor screws you, buy from another one.