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Linus Warms (Slightly) to GPL3

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-only-a-very-little dept.

lisah writes "Though Linus Torvalds isn't exactly tripping over himself to endorse the GPLv3 draft, he continues to warm up to it little by little and says the newest version is 'a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts.'"

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  1. Re:interconnections by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Same thing that happened with gcc/egcs. There'll be a fork, the side supported by Linus, Red Hat, Novell and IBM will get all the activity, and the FSF side will collapse into endless Debianish squabbling.

  2. Re:GPL3 is a good thing by N3WBI3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    GPL3 was a solution looking for a problem. Every time something new happens the roll out the GPL 3 as a solution to stop the Bill gates of the world from co-opting opensource. First its Tivoli and patents when thats not hot enough to get people on board wingo we have the Novell MS deal... RMS needs to take a bow and let someone else captain this ship maybe with all the time he can get hurd might see some progress..

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  3. Re:Runaway Linus Warming!!! by WED+Fan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good Gods. Linus is warming. Quick, someone offset his carbon. Save the Linus. Why weren't we told this before? What is the Government going to do to stop this? What major economic activity do we need to sabotage to stop Linus from warming?

    Modded as "troll"? I'm trying to decide if the GPL3 crowd, or the global warming crowd are the ones without the ability to laugh at themselves.

    Either way, both groups a just a hair away from being certified insane, and all their toys, with edges and corners, taken away from them.

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  4. "Real" freedom is not exhibited by GPL by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 1, Troll

    Real freedom will be when everyone has to use only free licenses.

    The GPL is not a free as in freedom license, it is restrictive. You are confused due to the fact that the restrictions are benevolent in nature to a rather large segment of the community. Don't confuse benevolence and freedom, they are not the same.