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FSF Releases Third Draft of GPLv3
johnsu01 writes "The Free Software Foundation has announced publication
of the third discussion draft of the
GNU General Public License Version 3. Because quite a few changes have been
made since the previous draft and important new issues have surfaced, the
drafting process has been extended and revised to
encourage more feedback. The most
significant changes in this draft
include refinements in the "tivoization" provisions to eliminate unwanted side
effects, revision of the patent provisions to prevent end-runs around the
license, and further steps toward compatibility with other free software
licenses. The FSF has also explicitly asked the community whether the new
patent provisions should apply retroactively to the Microsoft-Novell deal."
Answer: If you're anti-Microsoft and anti-corporation, yes.
If you just want to have linux as it is now, available to everyone, no.
GPLV3 is slowly becoming "Stallman's opinions on everything" and it seems to be that he's not the person to write GPLs as he is on the extreme end of most things.
Linux is just the kernel
Good luck running your computer without it. Whatcha gonna use? HURD? Minix?
It's possible to run the linux kernel with a gpl2 userland (IE: what 99.9% of us are doing now), but it isn't possible to run a gpl2 userland without the linux kernel.