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grey_moon · 2007-07-17, 11:07

Linus is actually one of the main copyright holders. Unlike a lot of the proper GNU projects which require you to give your copyrights to the FSF. (I think I got the terminology right). Below is Linus on Groklaw putting his point forward (this is before he starts to swear

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http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?m...481922#c481977

The thing is a good deal of the kernel code has the v2 only lines in it and a huge bulk of it does not have any line in at all. The question for these is do they inherit Linus's top copying file which specifies v2 only? Instead I've read more posts of if people (aka Linus and a lot of others) didn't put in v2 only then there would not be this issue. Linus's reply to this is on the lines of "I'm intelligent, I'm not going to leave my bottom open to a rogering"

More from Linus on Groklaw (the swearing starts), but it really explains Linus' stance on the whole GPLv3 thing....

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?m...481997#c482040

And here is a white paper from one of the developers on the dangers of GPLv3

http://kerneltrap.org/node/7160

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grey_moon Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!! Join Date: Dec 2004	Linus is actually one of the main copyright holders. Unlike a lot of the proper GNU projects which require you to give your copyrights to the FSF. (I think I got the terminology right). Below is Linus on Groklaw putting his point forward (this is before he starts to swear ) http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?m...481922#c481977 The thing is a good deal of the kernel code has the v2 only lines in it and a huge bulk of it does not have any line in at all. The question for these is do they inherit Linus's top copying file which specifies v2 only? Instead I've read more posts of if people (aka Linus and a lot of others) didn't put in v2 only then there would not be this issue. Linus's reply to this is on the lines of "I'm intelligent, I'm not going to leave my bottom open to a rogering" More from Linus on Groklaw (the swearing starts), but it really explains Linus' stance on the whole GPLv3 thing.... http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?m...481997#c482040 And here is a white paper from one of the developers on the dangers of GPLv3 http://kerneltrap.org/node/7160 __________________ Last edited by grey_moon; 2007-07-17 at 11:29.