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Re: [News] Ed Burnette Calls for Linus Torvalds to Embrace GPLv3

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:48:09 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 24 January 2008 08:35 : \____
>> 
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:13 : \____
>>>>> 
>>> < snip >
>>> 
>>>>> I was rather stunned to find that even in a Free software development
>>>>> list you'd have people who are merely seeking to exploit. This wasn't
>>>>> the first such incident and I've been on that list since the start
>>>>> (2004). Either way, Matt Mullenweg was willing to listen, so it was
>>>>> worth bringing up.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It seems like many GPL haters just use v3 as an excuse to attack. I
>>>>> know two BSD bloggers who did this.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I was genuinely shocked to see some of the people here that I had
>>>> considerable respect for suddenly become rabid, irrational beings, when
>>>> the possibility of taking free software and proprietarising it might be
>>>> taken away, at least for the kernel, through GPLv3.
>>> 
>>> What are you blubbering about?
>>> The kernel will probably remain GPL2 for quite some time
>>> It is currently not endangered to become GPL3
>> 
>> OpenSolaris adopts GPLv3, apparently (not yet known to what extent). Linus
>> said this would make him (unfortunately to him) re-consider GPLv3 as well.
> 
> No. He said it *might* force him to reconsider.
> And it would be extremely difficult, as large parts of the kernel are "GPL2
> only", not "GPL2 or later".
> Don't expect the kernel to be GPL3 for the foreseeable future. And be
> grateful for it, as otherwise people would lose functionality they now take
> for granted, a "feature" of GPL3 which its proponents don't want to talk
> about
> 
>> Developers go with the flow and choose based on licences. Just look at
>> BSDs and where they are..
> 
> Developers are to a very large extend (last figures around 40%) *against*
> the GPL3. That figure was for developers who would not even consider GPL3.
> The number was way higher when counting those who would not licence under
> GPL3 in the near future. Only a minority was willing to adopt GPL3 outright
>    
>>>> There are many people who, it seems, are happy to ride on the back of
>>>> the efforts of others, withholding key information which ensures that
>>>> the GPL's intended "freedoms" cannot be met, whilst claiming to be
>>>> supportive of "free software".
>>>> 
>>>> It's more plundering than pragmatism.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You might list the "plus" sides of GPL3. That list would be extremely
>>> short. Shorter even than the list of posts where DFS did not lie
>> 
>> I think so too.
>> 
> 
> Strange. Up to now you acted like a GPL3-jihadi

Schestowitz has considered the situation and being the paid spammer that he
is, he has reached the conclusion, based on financials of course, that his
SPAM will have more of an effect if he is on the more popular side instead
of associating himself with loony toons like Mark Kent and thus losing his
credibility and possibly his financial backing.

Smart move Roy Schestowitz.
You've finally done something intelligent.

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