Linus on GPLv2

[Joshua Zeidner]

Joseph,

  Excellent comments, thanks.

  Do you know what LT's specific issues are with GPLv3?

Thanks,
   jmz


On 9/27/06, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
>
> I've been tracking Linus efforts to stop the GLP3 work, I think it's
> mostly just his vehement distaste for the FSF, and his more fundamental
> distaste for any mixing of ethics and programming, that's driving the
> comments.
>
> Linus never liked that RMS and the FSF view software as an ethical field,
> and has always wanted the debate to be framed entirely in pragmatic
> terms.  This latest dust-up is an extension of that, since the new terms in
> the GPL to limit the use of patents against free software, and to ensure
> that the 4 freedoms aren't circumvented using encryption and/or hardware
> locks, are not in any way pragmatic from a code quality perspective, but do
> have a substantial ethical dimension.
>
> RMS says he's fine with the Linux kernel taking whatever path they're
> comfortable with, probably because he realizes that the GNU tools will be
> under GPL3, and that will be sufficient to prevent Tiovisation of the
> GNU/Linux system.  There's also the Hurd kernel waiting in the wings, and if
> they ever get it really going (GNU development being the glacial thing it
> usually is), it should be extremely interesting to see how it competes with
> the Linux kernel, sort of a rematch of the micro/macro kernel battle that
> theorists and kernel designers have every decade or so (and which the macro
> has generally won in the past, but multi-core changes the rules a lot, so
> micro might win this time around).
>
> Linus has also stated that while he finds the GPL3 distasteful, it's not
> so much that he doesn't like GPL3 as that he believes that GPL2 is
> essentially perfect, and sees no point in changing anything.
>
> der.hans wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > from the PLUG irc channel, #PLUGAZ on irc.freenode.net.
> >
> > <aza`_> why Linux prefers gplv2 vs v3
> > <aza`_> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/24/246
> > <aza`_> interesting read
> > <aza`_> s/Linux/Linus
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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