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Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sidelines dept.

lisah writes "Linus Torvalds has a lot of reasons for not wanting to participate in drafting the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL): He doesn't like meetings, says committees don't make sense, has philosophical differences with the Free Software Foundation, and seems to be generally distrustful of the whole drafting process. Though Torvalds prefers the GPLv2, he says if others prefer the GPLv3, they ought to support it because 'it's not like it kills and eats small children for breakfast, and must never be allowed.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. Re:The GPL3 process is not closed by slamb · · Score: 4, Informative
    The history of open source is littered with BSD-based empty victories like this.

    Is it? I'm not familiar with the SPICE landscape, but I am with PostgreSQL:

    PostgreSQL, while an excellent product that I still use often, is stagnating while MySQL slowly surpasses it in every way.

    Umm, what? How is PostgreSQL stagnating? It's a widely-used product with frequent releases, full-time contributors back to the open-source core, and several commercial support offerings. What do you mean by "MySQL slowly surpasses it in every way"? If you're talking about popularity, MySQL's always been more popular. If you're talking about something technical, well, I have absolutely no idea what it could be.